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Format: VHS
Rated R
Recording Mode: (unknown)
95 min. |
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Movie Description
A faithful screen adaptation of Harold Pinter's play, which tells its story working backward in time, BETRAYAL is a riveting drama about a man who has been unfaithful with his best friend's wife for seven years. As the adulterous relationship progresses, the psychological makeup of each character is starkly depicted, ultimately leading to a tragic ending.
Academy Award Nominations: Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Synopsis
Faithful screen version of Harold Pinter's play, which tells its story working backward in time, about a man who has been unfaithful with his best friend's wife for seven years
Film Notes
Film directorial debut for television director David Jones.
Costumes for Patricia Hodge by Jean Muir.
Additional cast: Avril Elgar (Mrs. Banks), Ray Marioni (Waiter), Caspar Norman (Sam), Chloe Billington (Charlotte Age 5), Hannah Davies (Charlotte Age 9), and Michael Konig & Alexander McIntosh (Ned Age 2).
Copyright Horizon Pictures (GB) Ltd. 1982.
Industry Reviews
Included in The New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1983"
New York Times - p.II:15 - Vincent Canby
"...BETRAYAL is an absorbing, quietly amusing chamber drama....[Irons] believably etches an essentially good and civilized man..."
Berg.
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