Streaming The Birthday Party (1968) Online
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by watchstream
The Birthday Party (1968)iMDB Rating: 6.7Date Released : 9 December 1968
Genre : Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Stars : Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB
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Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party." Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
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Review :
good version of a weird play
Harold Pinter's work is infuriating at best, but this film version comes close to making some sense of 'The Birthday Party'. Dandy Nichols runs a boarding house in which oddball lodger Stanley lives (very well played by Robert Shaw) and when two unusual menacing visitors arrive (Patrick Magee and Sidney Tafler) events start to get progressively weirder. The play is dark, claustrophobic, and extremely clever, and the film plays on this - I particularly liked the sequence with the torchlight which had heaps of atmosphere. Not seen much, this version is now commercially available again and hopefully will be eventually viewed in the same light as other Pinter movies such as 'Accident'. It deserves better than it has had so far.
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