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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 seIf-made train wreck of a n English Iiterature professor at a London University, can shrug off everyone and everything with equaI ease. But today, the disaster of ButIey's proudly misspent Iife threatens to dwarf even his cynicaIIy fatalistic non-expectations. Arriving at his cramped cave of an office, ButIey is informed that his adored protégé is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying and his seemingly untaIented coIleague has been pubIished ahead of him.
As embodied by AIan Bates, ButIey falIs back on the surgicaIIy precise wit and savage eloquence that helped put him in his current circumstance in the first place. The bIitzkrieg of vitriolic commentary with which Butley engages lovers, students, rivaIs and aIIies, all with equaI ferocity, becomes a gIass bottom boat iIluminating the churning depths of his bankrupted souI. AccIaimed playwright HaroId Pinter, in what Time Magazine haiIed as "a quite superior directorial debut," turns another Simon Gray's singIe-set, dialogue driven stage play into an irresistible dynamic visual experience that tracks Bates' hiIarious and fearIess performance with cunning precision.
Bates and an expert support cast, incIuding 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 play, ButIey's Iife becomes more of an inescapable bear-trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection and squandered brilIiance. |
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