I rewatched this film a couple of years ago. I love it. I’m a big fan of Losey and Dirk. I love the way the camera lingers on their faces just a bit too long to be comfortable.
Yup it was manly shot in a house in Surrey that as a child I spent many summers there. Think they had a children’s wing and a nanny so my London based mother shipped me and my sister there for weeks at a time in the summer. The film paid for a new small extension to the house and maybe renovation of the tennis court?!?
Near Guildford, or in the Surrey Hills somewhere? Near the M25? Is the post box still there? I need to stalk it on Google Map street view. Nothing like a bit of location research. Slight grumble incidentally, wouldn't Dirk's house actually have been made from stone? Outside Oxford? But it's a minor point.
I think so too. I was VERY careful- for obvious reasons- how I approached this one. But she's an object, frankly, of unbridled lust for three, not especially pleasant men. And Losey's far, far too subtle for stock characterisation.
As the poster shows it also had the great Vivien Merchant (on whose side I fall after everything that happened between her and Pinter, and especially after some - in my opinion - unforgivable poisonous remarks after her awful demise by the fragrant, floral verging on the blowsy, patrician Antonia Fraser (who was up at Lady Margaret Hall) -I’m not an admirer) when still Mrs Pinter for whom, on this point, discretion was clearly not the better part of valour.
In general, I was relating to Evelyn Waugh's own writing experience and note that Evelyn Waughs own perplexing attitudes - and was drawn towards the faith of Catholicism. I am not a film buff - yet I loved the emotional hassles that arose within the story outcome. .
I rewatched this film a couple of years ago. I love it. I’m a big fan of Losey and Dirk. I love the way the camera lingers on their faces just a bit too long to be comfortable.
Thanks Luke, a great read.
Mainly not manly lol
Yup it was manly shot in a house in Surrey that as a child I spent many summers there. Think they had a children’s wing and a nanny so my London based mother shipped me and my sister there for weeks at a time in the summer. The film paid for a new small extension to the house and maybe renovation of the tennis court?!?
Near Guildford, or in the Surrey Hills somewhere? Near the M25? Is the post box still there? I need to stalk it on Google Map street view. Nothing like a bit of location research. Slight grumble incidentally, wouldn't Dirk's house actually have been made from stone? Outside Oxford? But it's a minor point.
I could try asking my mother hmm
Please do!
Might not get a reply that makes any sense lol.
A great film - and analysis.
To my mind Jacqueline Sassard's erotic passivity is exactly what is required...
I think so too. I was VERY careful- for obvious reasons- how I approached this one. But she's an object, frankly, of unbridled lust for three, not especially pleasant men. And Losey's far, far too subtle for stock characterisation.
Appreciate your admirable thinking and good arguments - loved Evelyn Waugh as a writer and a thinker .
Thank you. 'The thin bat's squeak of sexuality'... I mean, how did ever manage to think that one up? Genius.
Absolutely! A beautiful mind perhaps!!!
Cool piece.
As the poster shows it also had the great Vivien Merchant (on whose side I fall after everything that happened between her and Pinter, and especially after some - in my opinion - unforgivable poisonous remarks after her awful demise by the fragrant, floral verging on the blowsy, patrician Antonia Fraser (who was up at Lady Margaret Hall) -I’m not an admirer) when still Mrs Pinter for whom, on this point, discretion was clearly not the better part of valour.
In general, I was relating to Evelyn Waugh's own writing experience and note that Evelyn Waughs own perplexing attitudes - and was drawn towards the faith of Catholicism. I am not a film buff - yet I loved the emotional hassles that arose within the story outcome. .