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The Servant
Film Description Northern working-class butler Bogarde gradually assumes the dominant role over his feeble master Fox. Critically acclaimed (adored by many French critics), with excellent performances, Losey's wholly assured first collaboration with playwright Harold Pinter is a dark, fascinating examination of class, decadence, sex and power. A key 60s British film, and for music fans, there's thirty seconds of Davey Graham playing his guitar in a coffee bar too.
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Review by C. Jones on 21st March 2001 Dark, brooding, surprisingly still relevant & quietly erotic Losey/Pinter 60s classic. Bogarde has rarely been better. Fox's performance prefigures Performance.
Article - "Joseph Losey (1909 ? 1984)"
by Chris Jones
In 1984, shortly after the director’s death, critic Michel Ciment wrote the following regarding Losey’s career which in retrospect seems no less apposite to the director’s current standing. Ciment comments that “Joseph Losey lived several lives and the mass of contra... View article in full
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Mirrors, echoes, precursors and influences by Gavin Oakes Every writer creates his own precursors, writes Borges. So too with filmmakers. These paired films are not remakes, but films that make me think of other films. Whether the film makers thought of them too I don't know.
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