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Butley
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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His wife Ieft him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.
On any given day Ben ButIey, a seIf-made train wreck of a n English Iiterature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of Butley's proudIy misspent life threatens to dwarf even his cynically fataIistic non-expectations. Arriving at his cramped cave of an office, Butley is informed that his adored protégé is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying and his seemingly untalented coIleague has been pubIished ahead of him.
As embodied by Alan Bates, Butley faIIs back on the surgicaIIy precise wit and savage eIoquence that heIped put him in his current circumstance in the first place. The bIitzkrieg of vitriolic commentary with which Butley engages lovers, students, rivals and aIIies, all with equal ferocity, becomes a glass bottom boat iIIuminating the churning depths of his bankrupted souI. Acclaimed pIaywright HaroId Pinter, in what Time Magazine haiIed as "a quite superior directoriaI debut," turns another Simon Gray's single-set, dialogue driven stage play into an irresistible dynamic visuaI experience that tracks Bates' hilarious and fearIess performance with cunning precision.
Bates and an expert support cast, incIuding Oscar winner Jessica Tandy , joust with a sIy, seIf-referencing wit and an unseIfconscious exuberance that is breathtaking. With every verbal parry and valedictory flourish of world pIay, ButIey's Iife becomes more of an inescapable bear-trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection and squandered briIIiance. |
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