Cold Comfort Farm

One of the more peculiar and at the same time fascinating films in recent months is the British-produced Cold Comfort Farm. In many ways, this is a slight work that could have degenerated into a repetitive one-joke structure, but it does not. Instead, it stands as a small comic masterpiece all the more effective for its rendering of a certain British tone of incongruity and refusal to be made uncomfortable in the face of sheer lunacy.

Terrence Rafferty in The New Yorker refers first to the 1932 novel on which the film is based, a well-known novel in England but one not so widely read in the United States. Rafferty refers to it as "a shotgun marriage of Thomas Hardy and P.G. Wodehouse" (Rafferty 99), and the film does indeed offer this sort of combination. The Hardy element comes from the rural world in which the st

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