UK,
1963, 112 min
Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Harold PinterCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
John DankworthCast:
Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Catherine Lacey, Patrick Magee, Harold Pinter, John Dankworth, Richard Vernon, Gerry Duggan, Aileen Lewis (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation’s cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust (James Fox) finds the seemingly perfect manservant (a diabolical Dirk Bogarde, during his transition from matinee idol to art-house icon) to oversee his new London town house. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously disorienting cinematography and a masterful script by playwright Harold Pinter merge in The Servant, a tour de force of mounting psychosexual menace. (Criterion)
(more)Cinematheque
User | Format | Languages | Added | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
stereolab | DVD | 12/28/2008 | ||
ladynka | DVD | 12/26/2008 | ||
pm | DVD | 10/10/2008 | ||
konrad | DVD | 08/19/2008 | ||
vok | DVD | 05/14/2008 | ||
gloomy | Other | 01/09/2008 | ||
faana21 | DVD | 09/20/2007 | ||
Aky | DVD | 08/31/2007 | ||
wasillisa | Other | 07/08/2007 | ||
MarianL | DVD | 06/30/2007 | ||
Ony | DVD | 06/04/2007 | ||
tomiisek | DVD | 05/18/2007 | ||
raroh | DVD | 04/24/2007 | ||
Bilbo | DVD | 03/21/2007 |