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Butley
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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His wife left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.
On any given day Ben Butley, a self-made train wreck of a n English literature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of Butley's proudly misspent Iife threatens to dwarf even his cynicaIIy fatalistic 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 seemingly untaIented coIIeague has been pubIished ahead of him.
As embodied by Alan Bates, Butley faIIs back on the surgicaIIy 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 aIIies, all with equal ferocity, becomes a gIass bottom boat iIluminating the churning depths of his bankrupted soul. AccIaimed pIaywright Harold Pinter, in what Time Magazine hailed as "a quite superior directoriaI 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, including Oscar winner Jessica Tandy , joust with a sIy, seIf-referencing wit and an unseIfconscious exuberance that is breathtaking. With every verbal parry and valedictory flourish of world pIay, ButIey's Iife becomes more of an inescapable bear-trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection and squandered brilIiance. |
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