Sunset Across the Bay (1975)

Highly Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Play for Today (1970-1984)

Director: Stephen Frears

Writer: Alan Bennett

Cinematographer: Brian Tufano

Composer: William Davies

Cast: Harry Markham, Gabrielle Daye, Bob Peck, Jill Summers

Frears and Bennett’s first film for the BBC’s Play for Today series, a beautifully understated yet thoroughly moving examination of the disappointments of old age, follows a newly retired Leeds couple, whose only son now lives in Australia, as they move to the seaside town of Morecambe in the hope of enjoying their twilight years, but the reality of their situation soon puts paid to their gentle optimism. Iain.Stott