Out of Season (1975)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 90m
Director: Alan Bridges
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George
Synopsis:
In a wintry seaside hotel live passive-aggressive mother (Ann) and her mythomaniac daughter (Joanna), when into their lives comes an American who was the mother's lover twenty years ago. Immediately the daughter begins playing games with him, and the mother claims she has had a lover every year since he left. He claims he is here to stay now, but can he keep them both happy?
Review:
Shot and cut like a television play, Bridges' film at times comes across with Pinteresque randomness, and Robertson, whose character name is Joe (Get it?) and who sports the same terrible haircut he had in Three Days of the Condor, cuts a decidedly passive figure. The narrative is dominated by George's embittered nymphet, who still resents being abandoned as a child (boarding school? all those lovers?) and who enacts an incestuous revenge at which Joe connives, in an epilogue the makers vainly try to make ambiguous.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 90m
Director: Alan Bridges
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George
Synopsis:
In a wintry seaside hotel live passive-aggressive mother (Ann) and her mythomaniac daughter (Joanna), when into their lives comes an American who was the mother's lover twenty years ago. Immediately the daughter begins playing games with him, and the mother claims she has had a lover every year since he left. He claims he is here to stay now, but can he keep them both happy?
Review:
Shot and cut like a television play, Bridges' film at times comes across with Pinteresque randomness, and Robertson, whose character name is Joe (Get it?) and who sports the same terrible haircut he had in Three Days of the Condor, cuts a decidedly passive figure. The narrative is dominated by George's embittered nymphet, who still resents being abandoned as a child (boarding school? all those lovers?) and who enacts an incestuous revenge at which Joe connives, in an epilogue the makers vainly try to make ambiguous.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 90m
Director: Alan Bridges
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George
Synopsis:
In a wintry seaside hotel live passive-aggressive mother (Ann) and her mythomaniac daughter (Joanna), when into their lives comes an American who was the mother's lover twenty years ago. Immediately the daughter begins playing games with him, and the mother claims she has had a lover every year since he left. He claims he is here to stay now, but can he keep them both happy?
Review:
Shot and cut like a television play, Bridges' film at times comes across with Pinteresque randomness, and Robertson, whose character name is Joe (Get it?) and who sports the same terrible haircut he had in Three Days of the Condor, cuts a decidedly passive figure. The narrative is dominated by George's embittered nymphet, who still resents being abandoned as a child (boarding school? all those lovers?) and who enacts an incestuous revenge at which Joe connives, in an epilogue the makers vainly try to make ambiguous.