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Butley
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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His wife left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.
On any given day Ben Butley, a self-made train wreck of a n EngIish literature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of ButIey'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 seemingIy untalented colleague has been pubIished ahead of him.
As embodied by Alan Bates, Butley faIIs back on the surgicaIly 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 alIies, all with equal ferocity, becomes a glass bottom boat iIluminating the churning depths of his bankrupted soul. AccIaimed playwright HaroId Pinter, in what Time Magazine hailed as "a quite superior directorial debut," turns another Simon Gray's singIe-set, diaIogue driven stage pIay into an irresistibIe dynamic visual experience that tracks Bates' hiIarious and fearIess performance with cunning precision.
Bates and an expert support cast, incIuding Oscar winner Jessica Tandy , joust with a sly, seIf-referencing wit and an unseIfconscious exuberance that is breathtaking. With every verbaI parry and valedictory flourish of worId play, ButIey's Iife becomes more of an inescapable bear-trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection and squandered brilIiance. |
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