UK,
1961, 100 min
Directed by:
Tony RichardsonCinematography:
Walter LassallyComposer:
John AddisonCast:
Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah, Michael Bilton, Eunice BlackVOD (3)
Plots(1)
The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey features Rita Tushingham in her star-making debut role as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite her absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson’s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 1962 - Dora Bryan (Best British Actress)
- 1962 - Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson (Best British Screenplay)
- 1962 - Outstanding British Film
- 1962 - Rita Tushingham (Most Promising Newcomer to Film)
- 1962 - Best Film
- 1962 - Murray Melvin (Most Promising Newcomer to Film)
Cannes Film Festival
- 1962 - Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham (Un Certain Regard - First Regard Prize)
- 1962 - Tony Richardson (Golden Palm - Official Competition)