The Winslow Boy (1998)
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
Youngest son of Arthur Winslow is expelled from Osborne Naval College for the theft of a five-pound postal order. The father seeks redress from the Crown.
Review:
A straight, unrepentantly theatrical, treatment of the play (we never see the inside of a courtroom) and all the braver for it. Cinematically it is formally impeccable, the camera never drawing attention to itself but always placed exactly where it needs to be. Dramatically it is not a film that goes for the emotional pay-off, and is all the more respectable for it, though it is almost as if Mamet wants to hold old English manners up to a magnifying glass and muse on their foreignness.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
Youngest son of Arthur Winslow is expelled from Osborne Naval College for the theft of a five-pound postal order. The father seeks redress from the Crown.
Review:
A straight, unrepentantly theatrical, treatment of the play (we never see the inside of a courtroom) and all the braver for it. Cinematically it is formally impeccable, the camera never drawing attention to itself but always placed exactly where it needs to be. Dramatically it is not a film that goes for the emotional pay-off, and is all the more respectable for it, though it is almost as if Mamet wants to hold old English manners up to a magnifying glass and muse on their foreignness.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam
Synopsis:
Youngest son of Arthur Winslow is expelled from Osborne Naval College for the theft of a five-pound postal order. The father seeks redress from the Crown.
Review:
A straight, unrepentantly theatrical, treatment of the play (we never see the inside of a courtroom) and all the braver for it. Cinematically it is formally impeccable, the camera never drawing attention to itself but always placed exactly where it needs to be. Dramatically it is not a film that goes for the emotional pay-off, and is all the more respectable for it, though it is almost as if Mamet wants to hold old English manners up to a magnifying glass and muse on their foreignness.