Word: trigorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot. At the country estate of a retired civil servant named Sorin (Harry Andrews) is assembled a group of people who over the course of two years will quietly destroy one another: Sorin's sister Arkadina (Simone Signoret), an aging actress vacationing in the country with her lover Trigorin (James Mason), a successful author; Arkadina's son Konstantin (David Warner), who yearns also to be a writer; and Nina (Vanessa Redgrave), an aspiring actress worshiped by Konstantin and enamored of Trigorin. Almost ritualistically, they feed on each other's weaknesses and delusions...
...does John Williams, as Trigorin, deteriorate in his key scenes. But he doesn't use them to reveal much of his character. Williams maintains a gently amused tone, never suggesting the almost accidentally ruthless element in Trigorin...
Virginia Morris, as Arcadina, is a prime example. In the mass scenes she is magnificent. She radiates her egotism, her impatience, with every gesture. But in flattering her lover, Trigorin, into returning to the city with her, she is curiously false and ineffective. It was there I expected to find out just how strong Arcadina was. At the Loeb she seems weak--yet Trigorin gives...