Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little to boast of here. The original play has been transported to the screen apparently by moving van. The sets might pass muster on a stage but look like pasteboard before the camera lens. Director Mark Robson records the action from a static position corresponding to front row center. The actors pass before the camera, mouthing lines of thimble-witted dialogue ("There stand the loins from which you sprang"; "Everything you do is so tragically irrelevant") that are open pleas for some heavy editing...
...Conte's cast of ten perform their theatrical take diligently and well. Conte's method of letting his actors play two or more characters in succession is intriguing, and enhances the cast's various abilities, rather than obscuring them. The interplay of voices and character changes keeps the physically static play in motion, even when the stage rests in the total darkness of night...
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...introduction, Eudora Welty refuses to make excuses for her amateurism. The lighting is often poor; many of the pictures are blurred; what composition there is cartoonish and static. The photographs are more than anything snapshots, where the need to record, and more, the fear of losing dominates the impulse. That they are snapshots throws the emotion behind the subjects into a peculiarly desperate emphasis, which a more professional rendition might have mitigated in favor of a better whole. The effect is heartbreaking--the lighting, the blurring, the posing--one knows one is looking backward through a great deal of time...
...That is what has made Pinter an edge-of-the-seat dramatist. Even when he was, as English Critic Alan Brien once said, "a Hitchcock with the last reel missing," he still provided the electric Hitchcock tension. Beginning with the one-acters, Landscape and Silence, Pinter became enamored of static ruminative monologues that belong more properly to the novel than to drama...