Regie:
Harold PinterKamera:
Gerry FisherBesetzung:
Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale, Michael Byrne, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Wooldridge, Derrick O'Connor, Darein Angadi, John Savident (mehr)Inhalte(1)
On any given day Ben Butley, a self-made train wreck of an English literature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of Butley's proudly misspent life threatens to dwarf even his cynically fatalistic non-expectations. Arriving at his cramped cave of an office, Butley is informed that his adored protégé is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying and his seemingly untalented colleague has been published ahead of him. As embodied by Alan Bates, Butley falls back on the surgically precise wit and savage eloquence that helped put him in his current circumstance in the first place. The blitzkrieg of vitriolic commentary with which Butley engages lovers, students, rivals and allies, all with equal ferocity, becomes a glass bottom boat illuminating the churning depths of his bankrupted soul. (Kino Lorber)
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