Penda's Fen (1974)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Alan Clarke
Stars: Spencer Banks, John Atkinson and Georgine Anderson
IMDb score:
7,1 (1.220)
Releasedate: 21 March 1974
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Penda's Fen plot
"I'm Nothing Pure"
Stephen, the village pastor's son, grew up in Pinvin, central England. He is strongly influenced by the beliefs of his formal parents and therefore in daily life besides school he is very concerned with religion, sin and justice. However, due to his burgeoning sexuality, Stephen is increasingly confused by visions from a distant and pagan past, which slowly invade his everyday environment.
Actors and actresses
Stephen Franklin
Reverend J. Franklin
Mrs. Franklin
Joel
Arne
Mrs. Arne
Sir Edward Elgar
Honeybone
Headmaster
Cooke
Reviews & comments
Woland
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- 3891 votes
My previous film, Twentynine Palms, was hardly horror, but despite visions and a pagan king who wanders around and mutilates people several times, this Penda's Fen is light years away from your typical horror film. Penda's Fen is primarily a deadly serious coming-of-age film about the rather serious Stephen, who, especially at the beginning of the film, is unbearable. An upper-class pastor's son, fervently religious and arch-conservative, arrogant towards workers, but also insecure. Through a series of visions and conversations with both real (his father, his socialist neighbour, the milkman he secretly has a crush on) and imaginary (including Edward Elgar and the titular King Penda) characters, his worldview is transformed, not least because he reveals he is adopted, begins to question his religion and slowly comes to terms with his homosexuality. It does have some beautiful and uncanny images of the English fields and a touch of mystery, but it is mainly a well-made, if somewhat old-fashioned, political and religious coming-of-age story. Why it has a comedy tag, I have no idea.
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