Equus (1977)
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
A stable boy blinds six horses and a psychiatrist gradually uncovers the truth that the apparently vindictive act was caused by feelings of adoration and shame.
Review:
Shaffer's highly stylised National Theatre success is transferred with complete fidelity to the screen, and naturally enough a more literal treatment of matters equine is deemed necessary. In a sense the play lends itself quite well to the cinema, with its chopping backwards and forwards from Dysart at his desk ('First account for me!'). Anyway, there are some bravura touches of direction and the performances are first-rate, with Burton in his last great role delivering what he does best: the disillusioned artistic intellectual.
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
A stable boy blinds six horses and a psychiatrist gradually uncovers the truth that the apparently vindictive act was caused by feelings of adoration and shame.
Review:
Shaffer's highly stylised National Theatre success is transferred with complete fidelity to the screen, and naturally enough a more literal treatment of matters equine is deemed necessary. In a sense the play lends itself quite well to the cinema, with its chopping backwards and forwards from Dysart at his desk ('First account for me!'). Anyway, there are some bravura touches of direction and the performances are first-rate, with Burton in his last great role delivering what he does best: the disillusioned artistic intellectual.
Country: GB
Technical: col 137m
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
A stable boy blinds six horses and a psychiatrist gradually uncovers the truth that the apparently vindictive act was caused by feelings of adoration and shame.
Review:
Shaffer's highly stylised National Theatre success is transferred with complete fidelity to the screen, and naturally enough a more literal treatment of matters equine is deemed necessary. In a sense the play lends itself quite well to the cinema, with its chopping backwards and forwards from Dysart at his desk ('First account for me!'). Anyway, there are some bravura touches of direction and the performances are first-rate, with Burton in his last great role delivering what he does best: the disillusioned artistic intellectual.