Réalisation:
Harold PinterPhotographie:
Gerry FisherActeurs·trices:
Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale, Michael Byrne, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Wooldridge, Derrick O'Connor, Darein Angadi, John Savident (plus)Résumés(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)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Alan Bates
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Rose (1979)
Zorba le Grec (1964)
Loin de la foule déchaînée (1967)
Jessica Tandy
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Beignets de tomates vertes (1991)
Miss Daisy et son chauffeur (1989)
Les Oiseaux (1963)
Georgina Hale
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
McVicar (1980)
Le Voyage des damnés (1976)
La Maîtresse du lieutenant français (1981)
Michael Byrne
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Indiana Jones et la Dernière Croisade (1989)
Braveheart (1995)
Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998) (téléfilm)
Richard O'Callaghan
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
La Folle escapade (1978)
La Courtisane (1998)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (série)
Susan Wooldridge
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (série)
Agatha Christie : Poirot (1989) (série)
Hope and Glory : La guerre à sept ans (1987)
Derrick O'Connor
Irlande
Meilleurs films :
L'Arme fatale 2 (1989)
Brazil (1985)
Hope and Glory : La guerre à sept ans (1987)
Darein Angadi
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Antony and Cleopatra (1974) (téléfilm)
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980) (téléfilm)
John Savident
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Gándhí (1982)
Orange mécanique (1971)
Les Vestiges du jour (1993)
Jill Goldston
Meilleurs films :
Aliens : Le retour (1986)
Elephant Man (1980)
Un violon sur le toit (1971)