The Go-Between

"nothing is ever a lady's fault. does that answer your question?"

A minor film, but a near perfect one.

A boy on the cusp of adolescence, and who believes he has the ability to curse others, enters an aristocratic cosmos and finds himself, in his inexperience, falling into a pit of desperate longing for a woman caught in her own prison of desire. The sinister and tragic undertones that suffuse every scene build to a satisfying conclusion, where we come to understand that the deformation of those desires can mean that the unwillingness to have curses lifted may last a lifetime. Any other questions?

Pretty good.

Directors like Bergman, Bresson or Losey make so perfectly clear and pure films. They're like ice tee on a hot day, or a delicious piece of cake right after lunch, mmmm it really makes the day.

5 nisan 10, 29. ist film fest., sinepop sinemasi, 19:00 & tekrar izlemeliyim ama simdi degil belki bi on yil sonra.

Losey and Pinter do it again. A sharp critique of the British class system, this time through the eyes of a lovelorn adolescent. The commentary, mainly on forbidden love and burgeoning desire, isn't original but it's still meaningful and effective. Losey's direction is captivating, especially his use of sound.

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