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Betrayal

Screening on Film
Directed by David Hugh Jones.
With Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge.
UK, 1983, 35mm, color, 95 min.
Print source: Pyramide Films

A love affair told in reverse, David Hugh Jones' direction of Pinter's semi-autobiographical play (for which he wrote the script) explores the complex emotions which drive marital infidelity. A suave literary agent has an affair with the wife of a book publisher who also happens to be his best friend. Each actor is perfectly cast: Irons embodies the deluded dreams of the agent, Kingsley is frighteningly seething as the publisher, and Hodge sympathetically conveys her conflicted desire for both men.

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