cold comfort farm have a familiar plot and but be very well do . portray young flora poste ( kate beckinsale ) move in with her backwards relatives in 1930s england and try to change everything and the movie have the perfect pacing . it the sort of situation where her relative sort of irk you and but you can not help but admire them ( mainly due to flora snobbish attitude about everything ) . it just go to show what a great director john schlesinger ( midnight cowboy and the day of the locust and pacific height ) be . he will definitely be miss . also star eileen atkins and stephen fry and joanna lumley and ian mckellen and miriam margoyles and rufus sewell .