Juliet Stevenson heads the cast in this prestigious film adaptation of Laurie Lee’s classic novel Cider With Rosie. Set in 1918 in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside, Cider With Rosie conjures up a world of earthy warmth and beauty as it follows Laurie Lee’s renowned tale from childhood to adolescence and the awakening of manhood. Cider with Rosie is not only a classic tale of childhood, but also an elegy to a passing era. Faithful to the book.
The film features narration by Laurie Lee himself taken from an unabridged recording of the book. Set in the years immediately after World War I, Cider with Rosie captures a vanished era. “I belonged to that generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand years’ life,” wrote Lee of his upbringing with eight siblings and a single mother in a semi-feudal world of candlelight, horse carts, and profound solitude.
“With a script by the talented John Mortimer (“Rumpole of the Bailey”), a superbly chosen cast and Charles Beeson’s supple, sensitive direction, this 90-minute evocation of vanished pastoralism makes for compelling — albeit unapologetically sentimental — television.” – Variety
Shown on PBS Masterpiece.
Starring Juliet Stevenson, Dashiell Reece, Joe Roberts, David Troughton, Emily Mortimer.
Not rated.