Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Harold PinterCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
Michel LegrandCast:
Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Edward Fox, Richard Gibson, Roger Lloyd Pack, John Rees (more)Plots(1)
Summer 1900: Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty something sister, a beauty about to engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest green suit, takes him on walks, and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbour, Ted Burgess. Leo is soon dissembling, realises he's betraying Hugh, but continues as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naive questions about the attraction of men and women. How does innocence end? (StudioCanal UK)
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The story of a failed unequal (class) love, mediated by a little boy, who not only discovers the functioning of English aristocratic customs from the turn of the century but also finds answers to his own childhood questions. Although it is not a particularly innovative topic, it was soberly processed to my liking and without kitschy romantic schemes, which made the story seem believable to me.
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