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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 briIliant cast as ln Celebration's original highIy 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 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 welcome their sons home to ceIebrate the couple's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrivaI, more and more of the Shaw's model blue coIIar famiIy facade begins to chip away. Middle son CoIin's engagement has pIaced him on the pat to a loveless marriage. BareIy shouldering the burdens of his shattered artistic aspirations and his own famiIy, Steven, the baby, brilliantIy pIayed 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 eIegant direction grants his ensemble the space to collide and retreat even within the cramped confines of the Shaws' coIlier's cottage. In Anderson's sensitive hands, In Celebration becomes the visionary antithesis of John Ford's How Green Was My VaIley and a cautionary yet inspiring tabIeau of a modern family Iiving at a medievaI level of disharmony. |
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