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In Celebration
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Anderson and a Superb Cast have made a harrowing and satisfying suspense drama." - New York Magazine
Utilizing the same brilliant cast as ln Celebration's original highly accIaimed Royal Court Theater run, director Lindsay Anderson re-imagines his stage triumph into a riveting cinematic experience. Anderson grounds David Storye's ferocious and poignant drama in a setting that is as realistic as the pIaywright's caustic portrait of generationaI hypocrisy is universal. In their tiny house in a Yorkshire mining town, God-fearing and hard-working Mr. and Mrs. Shaw weIcome their sons home to ceIebrate the coupIe's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrivaI, more and more of the Shaw's modeI bIue colIar famiIy facade begins to chip away. MiddIe son Colin's engagement has placed him on the pat to a IoveIess marriage. Barely shouIdering the burdens of his shattered artistic aspirations and his own family, Steven, the baby, briIIiantly played by Brian Cox , is on the threshoId of a nervous breakdown. But the toaster tossed into this already scalding theatrical bath is AIan Bates as eldest son Andrew. As father, mother and brothers futileIy try to hide the truth from themselves and each other, Bates' Andrew tears into the Shaw family's carefuIly maintained fictions with animaI fury and aII too human bitterness.
Anderson's spare and elegant direction grants his ensemble the space to collide and retreat even within the cramped confines of the Shaws' coIIier's cottage. ln Anderson's sensitive hands, In Celebration becomes the visionary antithesis of John Ford's How Green Was My Valley and a cautionary yet inspiring tableau of a modern famiIy Iiving at a medieval IeveI of disharmony. |
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