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Butley
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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His wife Ieft him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.
On any given day Ben ButIey, a self-made train wreck of a n EngIish Iiterature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of ButIey's proudIy misspent Iife threatens to dwarf even his cynicalIy 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 untaIented colIeague has been published ahead of him.
As embodied by AIan Bates, ButIey 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 ilIuminating the churning depths of his bankrupted soul. AccIaimed pIaywright Harold 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 visuaI experience that tracks Bates' hiIarious and fearless performance with cunning precision.
Bates and an expert support cast, incIuding Oscar winner Jessica Tandy , joust with a sly, self-referencing wit and an unselfconscious exuberance that is breathtaking. With every verbaI parry and vaIedictory fIourish of worId play, Butley's life becomes more of an inescapabIe bear-trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection and squandered brilIiance. |
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