The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party

The Shooting Party
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Actor: Dorothy Tutin, Edward Fox, Gordon Jackson, John Mason, Sir John Gielgud
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Mono, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide

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DVD Review: The end of the Empire
Summary: 4 Stars

After reading Isabel Colegate's novel, The Shooting Party, I was interested in seeing whether the movie would correct one of the major flaws in the book, and indeed it did. Colegate is a wonderful writer, but she is more dedicated to creating beautiful prose than providing satisfying resolutions to her plots. Much like the book, the movie was slow paced. But unlike the novel, the film resolved the central theme of the book in an entirely unequivocal manner.

The Shooting Party, set on the eve of WWI, is a portrait of the last of the Edwardians, that generation of English aristocracy who at least gave lip service to their role as the guardians of "sporting conduct." While not quite a defense of the upper class, neither is it an indictment (in spite of the fact that the sole concern of the aristocracy on the eve of the "war to end all wars" seemed to revolve around how best to amuse themselves). The Shooting Party is simply an eloquent and unjudgmental description of loss. Both the book and the movie share a sense of foreboding (beautifully expressed in James Mason's soliloquy, in which he virtually welcomes the descending "hordes of barbarians"), as well as a feeling that something significant is about to happen. What happens is the end of an era--the end of "gentlemanly" behavior, the end of privilege, the end of safety, and most of all, the end of an illusion. Through the combination of Colegate's exquisite writing and Tammes' profoundly evocative cinematography, the world of the lost Edwardians, and of their fading Empire, is forever captured in this subtle and poignant film.
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