Word: losey
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Accident by Joseph Losey. Like all things Harold Pinter touches, Accident smacks of ambiguity. It is at once a penetrating analysis of the university system, a story of acceptance of middle-age, its corresponding disillusionment, and like all of Pinter, simple and compelling storytelling. Theoretically Pinter's dialogue is perfect for motion pictures: the lines in themselves have little substance, and the meaning emerges gradually, thus providing a complement rather than a distraction to cinematic stylization. Pinter command of language, though, transcends Losey's sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle...
This year that policy seems wiser than ever. In the past, Lincoln Center featured new films by the creative experimenters of the art-house circuit-Bufiuel, Resnais, Kurosawa, Losey. The 1967 scene offers an old and a new Godard (Les Carabiniers, Made in U.S.A.) and a sluggish Rossellini (The Rise of Louis XIV), but otherwise gives itself over to cinematic unknowns. Unfortunately, few entries rise above mediocrity...
ACCIDENT. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Joseph Losey directed this glacial dissection of human passion against the background of an Oxonian summer...
ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed...
Accident's glacial dissection of human passion takes place against the brilliant background of a green Oxonian summer, accenting the mood of haunting irony that Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) strove for. But despite the excellence of his camera work, and of Bogarde in the central role, Accident is a flawed work. The fault is largely that of Scriptwriter Harold Pinter (The Homecoming). His customarily cryptic dialogue probes too deeply, revealing all of the characters' inner anxiety and guilt, almost none of their outward life and feeling. Although they suffer from pangs of the flesh, they seem...