The Go-Between
Screening on Film
Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton.
UK, 1970, 35mm, color, 118 min.
With Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton.
UK, 1970, 35mm, color, 118 min.
A forbidden affair between an affluent landowner’s daughter and a common farmer is facilitated by a young boy who becomes a secret messenger between the two lovers. In one of several collaborations with screenwriter Harold Pinter, director Joseph Losey explores the dire consequences of the English class system and provides a near perfect evocation of turn-of-the century country life and social repression in a film which was honored with the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
