Out of Season ( Winter Rates )

Out of Season (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Winter Rates
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alan Bridges

Written By:
Eric Bercovici
Reuben Bercovitch

Actors:
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Ann
Cliff Robertson ..... Joe Tanner
Susan George ..... Joanna
Edward Evans ..... Charlie
Frank Jarvis ..... Postman

Synopsis:

In this tense story of an unusual romantic triangle, middle-aged Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) and her teenage daughter Joanna (Susan George) manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe (Cliff Robertson). Joe and Ann had an affair years ago, and it's suggested (though never stated) that Joanna could be their child. Joe and Ann soon renew their relationship, but Ann discovers that she has a rival for Joe's affections when Joanna makes her interest in the handsome older man clear. Also shown under the title Winter Rates (the title of the stage drama upon which it was based), Out of Season was at one time to have been directed by the noted playwright Harold Pinter, but he was eventually replaced by stage and screen veteran Alan Bridges.

After relishing the nuances of the master-servant relationship in The Hireling, the super-smooth Alan Bridges finds himself landed with an impossible project. The dire script wrings every possible cliché out of the situation (mother and daughter while winter away in their deserted seaside hotel, until they're interrupted by the arrival of an intruder from the past). The biggest mystery is why this stagey stuff (all brooding desire, jealousy and intimations of incest) was filmed at all, and why a cast of this calibre should have bothered.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 31 October, 2012.

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