The Last September (1999) short review

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THE LAST SEPTEMBER 1999

A beautiful and sad look at the autumn of the Anglo-Irish. The plot centers around Lois’s (Keeley Hawes) coming of age during the Irish civil war, with great acting by Hawes, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, and Fiona Shaw.

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Kendra has been a fixture in the online costuming world since the late 1990s. Her website, Démodé Couture, is one of the most well-known online resources for historical costumers. In the summer of 2014, she published a book on 18th-century wig and hair styling. Kendra is a librarian at a university, specializing in history and fashion. She’s also an academic, with several articles on fashion history published in research journals.

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  1. Laura C. Minnick

    Very dark, but I LOVED that film. I want Keeley’s red dress. But I sobbed when David Tennant’s character was shot. Such and earnest young man…