The Go-Between (1970) [ Blu-Ray Reg.A/B/C Import - France ]

Product information for The Go-Between (1970) [ Blu-Ray Reg.A/B/C Import - France ]

France released Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player. You need Blu-Ray DVD player to view this Blu-Ray DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DTS-HD Master Audio ) English ( Mono ) French ( DTS-HD Master Audio ) French ( Mono ) French ( Subtitles ) WIDESCREEN (1.85:1) SPECIAL FEATURES: Featurette Interactive Menu Scene Access 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. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards Cannes Film Festival Golden Globes O...The Go-Between (1970)