COLD COMFORT FARM British Film Showcase

John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric,
fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons’. popular 1932 novel … its playful
mood and wicked wit are likely to delight film audiences. In the 1930s set saga, Flora Paste, a
sophisticated young woman, suddenly finds herself orphaned and with no fortune. Undeterred,
the feisty Flora tells her socialite friend Mrs. Smiling that she intends to seek her “rights” and
stay with her rustic relatives at Cold Comfort Farm … a wild bunch indeed … boasting a characteristically
British combination of frivolity, eccentricity and wicked humor … -Emanuel Levy,
Variety Cold Comfort Farm has been selected as Emanuel Levy’s Critic’s Choice.