Look Back In Anger details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Mary Ure, Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence, Richard Burton, Gary Raymond |
| Director: | Tony Richardson |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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Look Back In Anger |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 36 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 31 Aug 2009 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Uncomfy but interesting
By a customer , 10 Jun 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
I was expecting this to be like my favourite films from the same era - British new wave films like Billy Liar, the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Room at the Top. But in comparison it was so humourless and stodgy. Burton is so melodramatic - it's much like a play on a stage and less like a film. But I suppose it's one of the earlier 'kitchen sink' dramas and was groundbreaking - even now it's not comfortable viewing. But I did enjoy it, the characters are interesting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(5)Uncomfy but interesting
By a customer , 10 Jun 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
I was expecting this to be like my favourite films from the same era - British new wave films like Billy Liar, the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Room at the Top. But in comparison it was so humourless and stodgy. Burton is so melodramatic - it's much like a play on a stage and less like a film. But I suppose it's one of the earlier 'kitchen sink' dramas and was groundbreaking - even now it's not comfortable viewing. But I did enjoy it, the characters are interesting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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50s Roaring Burton
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 22 Feb 2012A 50s play with some eternal matters, not least of which is the supposed vituperative power of men over women. Burton does well as the bullying husband of the slightly too saintly wife, but his Welsh accent would have suited the lodger better, who had to struggle with his fake Taffy voice. The outside scenes of 50s London were very interesting.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Lost its edge
By RJNeb2 (922 reviews) from London , 21 May 2010Nowadays we're more likely to look back in mild irritation such has been the effect of the passing years on John Osbourne's once firebrand play. It's an important film in that it and 'Room at the Top' heralded the advent of the British kitchen sink drama which threw up some great classics in the early 60s. It feels like a filmed play, however, lacking the vibrancy and realism of some of the later works while Richard Burton comes across as being far too patrician to convince as the irascible Jimmy Porter. Mary Ure too is rather too simpy as the downtrodden wife. But as a distillation of Britain turning a corner, starting to embrace multi-culturism, and becoming more sexually frank, it's a fascinating testament.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Look back in embarrassment
By Leni (179 reviews) from London , 25 Jan 2010This film is fairly faithful to the epochal play by John Osborne of 1956, reckoned to have changed British theatre for ever. At this distance it's hard to feel much admiration for it. The script is far too wordy, and the 'anger' is more to do with the psychotic mood swings and splenetic self-pity of Jimmy Porter as he takes revenge on behalf of the world on his upper middle class wife and her friend. The characterisation is completely sacrificed to provide a soap-box for Osborne's weirdly incomprehensible views - if Porter is angry at the suffering of the afflicted, why does he go to such lengths to add to it. I was glad when it was over.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Men: rotten. Women: generous victims
By Picaro (68 reviews) from Bangor , 02 Jan 2010The film captured the mood of its time superbly. It is sad to see the male's selfishness, and one must admire and pity the patience and the plight of the twow young women. Are times any better?- Was this review helpful to you?
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