However , Nigel Andrews of the '' Financial Times '' found it " like a pastoral parable that has been left outside in the damp too long , causing its batteries to go flat " and following a 2008 screening , Sam Jordison of '' The Guardian '' suggested " even though this film is ( unusually ) faithful to the book ... it is really little better than inoffensive . Somehow the magic that makes JL Carr 's book so precious is missing . " The film was the recipient of two awards : Pat O'Connor won the Silver Rosa Camuna at the Bergamo Film Meeting in 1987 and Howard Blake was awarded the Anthony Asquith Award for Musical Excellence by the British Film Institute in 1988 . In addition , Colin Firth was nominated for an '' Evening Standard '' Award . The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
1987 Cannes Film Festival
1987 Cannes Film Festival
A Month in the Country (film)