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In Reply to: RE: Do you like Pinter? posted by Victor Khomenko on November 12, 2020 at 07:55:42
Yes, absolutely. Criterion is currently streaming some. Watched "The Pumpkin Eater" for the third time. First saw it thirty years ago and was fascinated. Will be rewatching "The Servant" and "Accident".
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Which I find self-conscious and unsettling. Walken turned up "dark and weird" to 11 in that one.
The Pumpkin Eater is way too depressing...
Like tin said - I also can take that in severe moderation.
time around, I appreciated it more--- Dirk Bogarde, whom I've always thought as very similar to James Mason, was wonderful--- expressive with a nuance beyond most American actors' range. The biggest surprise, though, was Stanley Baker. I've only seen him in macho roles; it was odd to see him in glasses and portraying a don! He nicely brought it off, though.
The women, all 3, were perfect, as well. Seyrig has to be one of the sexiest women in film history, and so effortlessly.
And that brings us to... Michael York. Here, reality meets fiction: he actually attended and graduated from Oxford. When he punted, he did so with a practice that would be hard to come by for the purposes of one short scene...
I am going to revisit several other Pinter films and in advance reserve the right to contradict my earlier facile dismissal...
I doubt I appreciated it nearly as much when we saw it many years ago. I truly don't know why it only gets 6.9 on imdb, to me it is as perfect a movie as they come.
So tonight - The Servant... I definitely have a weak spot for Sarah Miles.
filmed in Marienbad, at all...) last night and marveled at her beauty--- and how central music is to the film.
The two finest modern era French actresses, she and Deneuve, are truly ice queens. Strange, isn't it, considering that the persona of French women is that their passion leads them to cuckold a husband as easily as send back an imperfectly prepared omelet. Then of course, the ultimate complexity... Bardot. Hard to make heads-or-tails about her, though I'd have liked to try. (One would have to compete with several Beatles and Bob Dylan--- among dozens of other famous and filthy rich to do so...).
...I wrote about it a couple of years ago... and if you like Seyrig, do you remember her in Chantal Akerman's moody and gruesome "Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles"
That 15 minute potato pealing scene was something. :)
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More depressing than "Accident" or "The Servant"? "The Pumpkin Eater" is probably my favorite, although I agree it is tough going...
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