Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity-Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity...
...GUEST. Two oddball brothers play host to a scruffy tramp. And with cracking good dialogue and superb acting, the screen version of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker remains nearly as fascinating-and just as ambiguous-as it was onstage...
...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity-Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity...
With only a smidgen of a plot to drive them, this unholy trio thrashes out a sometimes funny, sometimes corrosive drama based on Harold Pinter's London and Broadway stage success, The Caretaker. It is still morbidly fascinating to watch. And what made the play important remains perfectly clear: dialogue so richly human that every vile syllable sounds like a cry for help, plus superb acting of their original roles by Pleasence, Shaw and Bates...
...playwright's bleak study of mankind may be an allegory subject to highly colorful interpretations, it may only be an exercise in ambiguity. The movie falters, too, because the flaws of filmed theater become obvious when ever Director Clive Donner and Scenarist Pinter try most earnestly to "open up" the play in cinema terms. A room sealed against the real and imagined terrors of the outside world is the natural hell of Pinter's characters, and a legitimate theater is an intimate place to share them. To set them roaming into the street or off to a neighborhood...