Requiem for a Village (1975) David Gladwell

Requiem for a Village (1975)
Genre: Drama | “Documentary” | Experimental | Arthouse
Country: UK | Director: David Gladwell
Language: English | Subtitles: English (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 69mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv – 960×720 – 23.976fps – 3.26gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877747/

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village rises to life in Requiem for a Village through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard. With influences that range from the poet TS Eliot to the artist Stanley Spencer, and using real village residents as amateur actors, the film powerfully suggests that history and memory are ever-present in our lives, regardless of the unrelenting drive towards modernisation.

Writing in the 1975 London Film Festival programme, Lindsay Anderson commented: ‘David Gladwell’s film is an authentic, lyrical pastoral of absolute and obstinate originality – the work of a unique artist… Requiem for a Village is one of that handful of works which prove that the English poetic genius is fully capable – given the right, rare circumstances – of expressing itself in cinema, as it always has in literature and painting.’

Although best known for his celebrated work as editor on Lindsay Anderson’s If…. and O Lucky Man!, David Gladwell has rarely before been recognised as the director of a collection of extraordinary, ground-breaking films which explore Britain’s rural traditions and the undying power of memory. This edition provides the rare opportunity to finally experience Gladwell’s lyrical, poetic 1975 film Requiem for a Village, as well as a selection of his rare and striking short film works.

Requiem for a Village (1975)