August (1996)

Directed by

Anthony Hopkins

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family gathers at a remote Welsh estate in the summer. Old resentments and unspoken desires bubble up among them, leading to emotional confrontations.

slow-burnmelancholicintimatereflectivesomberrestrainedwarm

What happens

August is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan (IPA:j/əɨ/a/n) Davies, and featuring Rhys Ifans in a small role in one of his earliest films, as Griffiths. It is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1899 play Uncle Vanya, with the character Ieuan Davies taking over the title role. The film was Hopkins's first feature film with a full cast (he had previously directed the one-man-performance of Dylan Thomas: Return Journey in 1990). It would be over a decade before his next directorial effort, Slipstream in 2007, which he also wrote and for which he also composed the score. During an interview on the podcast, The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon stated that working with Anthony Hopkins on August was the highlight of his career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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