To the Lighthouse

TV Movie
1983
1h 55m

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Rosemary Harris in To the Lighthouse (1983)

A family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.A family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.A family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.

Director
- Colin Gregg
Writers
- Hugh Stoddart
- Virginia Woolf
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6.1/10

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Director
- Colin Gregg
Writers
- Hugh Stoddart
- Virginia Woolf
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total

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This movie was the first true independent production with the BBC. Keith Williams, BBC Head of Plays, Ronnie Marsh, the BBC Head of Co-Production worked with Producer David Wilkinson to pioneer the "Reverse Co-Production". The BBC provided the crew, equipment and post-production services. Wilkinson raised his funding from the Prudential Assurance, which paid for the actors, actresses, extras, screenplay, rights to the novel, music, and musicians. Colin Gregg Films then owned the copyright and world rights to the movie. The BBC had just two U.K. showings of the movie. It was one of four television movies nominated in 1983 for a BAFTA award.

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Clair de Lune
Music by Claude Debussy

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8/10

"Nothing Happens"

I read somewhere that Kenneth Tynan took a friend who knew nothing about Chekhov to see a production of "The Cherry Orchard;" as they were leaving the theatre, Tynan asked the other guy what he made of the play, and got the reply, "Rather boring, I thought. Nothing happens." "Nothing except the end of an age and the birth of the next one," was Tynan's response. I think that something similar applies to this version of "To the Lighthouse;" the film is heavy with pathos, regret, longing, decline, all coming from the interactions each member of the household has with all of the others. I felt again the pleasure of watching Mrs Wolff's genius at work, in the mosaic created by so much seeming-random-but-always-revealing dialogue as well as the interior monologues spoken by some of the characters. I was completely enthralled by the film and deeply impressed by the great honesty of all the actors' performances. Definitely a winner in my estimation.