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The Servant (1963)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig

Synopsis:

A toff takes on a new butler, who cossets him and presides over his moral degradation.

Review:

A film to be taken on many levels; as a critique (on the part of Losey) of the British class structure wherein the truth behind the roleplaying is even less attractive than the mask and the master proves to be a mere puppet; as a film about the sado-masochism, occasionally reversed, of the master-servant relationship; or simply as another Pinter exercise in exposing the powerplay underlying all human relationships. There is even a homosexual subtext if you care to see it, with Bogarde coming over as a camp Northerner in the Murray Melvin mould.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig

Synopsis:

A toff takes on a new butler, who cossets him and presides over his moral degradation.

Review:

A film to be taken on many levels; as a critique (on the part of Losey) of the British class structure wherein the truth behind the roleplaying is even less attractive than the mask and the master proves to be a mere puppet; as a film about the sado-masochism, occasionally reversed, of the master-servant relationship; or simply as another Pinter exercise in exposing the powerplay underlying all human relationships. There is even a homosexual subtext if you care to see it, with Bogarde coming over as a camp Northerner in the Murray Melvin mould.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig

Synopsis:

A toff takes on a new butler, who cossets him and presides over his moral degradation.

Review:

A film to be taken on many levels; as a critique (on the part of Losey) of the British class structure wherein the truth behind the roleplaying is even less attractive than the mask and the master proves to be a mere puppet; as a film about the sado-masochism, occasionally reversed, of the master-servant relationship; or simply as another Pinter exercise in exposing the powerplay underlying all human relationships. There is even a homosexual subtext if you care to see it, with Bogarde coming over as a camp Northerner in the Murray Melvin mould.

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