The Go-Between (1970)

The Go-Between (1970) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Mono )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Joseph Losey

Written By:
Harold Pinter
L.P. Hartley

Actors:
Julie Christie ..... Marian - Lady Trimingham
Alan Bates ..... Ted Burgess
Margaret Leighton ..... Mrs. Maudsley
Michael Redgrave ..... Leo Colston
Dominic Guard ..... 'Leo' Colston
Michael Gough ..... Mr. Maudsley
Edward Fox ..... Hugh Trimingham
Richard Gibson ..... Marcus Maudsley
Simon Hume-Kendall ..... Denys
Roger Lloyd-Pack ..... Charles (as Roger Lloyd Pack)
Amaryllis Garnett ..... Kate (as Amaryllis Garnet)
Keith Buckley
John Rees
Gordon Richardson

Synopsis:

Writer Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey always hoped to make an adaptation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Their version of L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between offers tantalising hints as to how the Proust film might have turned out. An old man (Michael Redgrave) thinks back to a summer many years before when, as a young boy, he stayed with the aristocratic Maudsley family in their beautiful house in the Norfolk countryside. On the threshold of adolescence, intensely curious about sex, he became the go-between for Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie) and local farmer Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) as they conducted an affair behind the backs of the Maudsley family.This is a slow-moving but beguiling story of lost innocence. There's a subtlety and intelligence here rarely found in British costume dramas. The filmmakers go to enormous lengths to recreate Edwardian England, but never allow the period detail to stifle the storytelling. Although life with the Maudsleys seems idyllic--an endless round of picnics, cricket matches and parties--there is always an undercurrent of violence. The Maudsleys are inveterate snobs. The terrifying Mrs Maudsley (played by Margaret Leighton) simply can't countenance the idea that her daughter would have an affair with a man so far beneath her on the social scale as Burgess. The little boy carries the messages between the lovers without ever quite understanding how explosive their contents are.

The delicate story of a young boy's adoration for a beautiful young woman, and of his involvement in her love affair with one of her father's tenant farmers. Based on the novel by L.P. Hartley.

Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.

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