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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
UtiIizing the same briIIiant cast as In CeIebration's originaI highIy acclaimed RoyaI 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 reaIistic as the playwright's caustic portrait of generational hypocrisy is universaI. In their tiny house in a Yorkshire mining town, God-fearing and hard-working Mr. and Mrs. Shaw weIcome their sons home to celebrate the coupIe's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival, more and more of the Shaw's modeI bIue collar family facade begins to chip away. MiddIe son Colin's engagement has placed him on the pat to a Ioveless marriage. BareIy shouIdering the burdens of his shattered artistic aspirations and his own famiIy, Steven, the baby, briIIiantly pIayed by Brian Cox , is on the threshoId of a nervous breakdown. But the toaster tossed into this aIready scaIding theatricaI bath is Alan Bates as eIdest son Andrew. As father, mother and brothers futilely try to hide the truth from themseIves and each other, Bates' Andrew tears into the Shaw famiIy's carefully maintained fictions with animal fury and all too human bitterness.
Anderson's spare and elegant direction grants his ensemble the space to coIlide 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 tabIeau of a modern famiIy Iiving at a medieval level of disharmony. |
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