WATCH PARTY: The Go-Between (1971) Joseph Losey @ Mary Pretlow Library
Details
We'll be in the conference room to the left of the elevator/stairs on the 2nd floor.
Based on the 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley, screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
RUNTIME: 116 minutes
RATING: PG
SYNOPSIS: In this period drama, British teenager Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian (Julie Christie). Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the go-between for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), a handsome neighboring farmer. However, when Marian becomes engaged to Hugh Trimingham (Edward Fox), a local viscount, all their lives are altered.
BLURBS:
"'The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.' These are the opening lines of The Go-Between, a marvelous and near-perfect movie." - Tony Mastroianni, Cleveland Press
"What I saw on the screen is, I think, a masterpiece: the peak toward which Losey has been striving, experimenting, discarding and overdoing it, during 20 odd stormy years as a film-maker." - Margaret Hinxman, Telegraph (UK)
"Pinter’s screenplay here is one of his best. It is one where what isn’t said is emphasized – one where we get layers that fly right over poor, young, naïve Leo’s head." - Dave's Movie Site