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Director: Anthony Minghella
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From Time Out Film Guide
Three characters sit trapped in urns in a purgatorial limbo, forever condemned to replay the sordid details of their bitter, triangular love affair. Of all the plays in the 'Beckett on Film' project, Minghella's aroused the most negative feelings when it premiered in Dublin, where purists accused the director of betraying the author's intentions by adding lots of other urn-people and by generally privileging style over content. Certainly the cinematic apparatus is heavily foregrounded (whirring noises accompany camera moves, frenetic cutting), but these experiments seem apt in the light of Beckett's own preoccupations with form. A bold if not entirely successful attempt to reinvent the play for a different medium.Author: KC
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- Kevin said...
- Posted on Mar 25 2011 11:13 Purgatorial Limbo is a impossibility. Youn are either in one or the other. You can never be in both. I would suggest that the three characters are not beyond redemption and are therefore in purgatory. It could be argued that Alan Rickman's character is actually beyond redemption and is therefore in limbo - but that is for others...
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Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Minghella
Producer: Alan Moloney, Tim Bricknell, Michael Cologan
Cast: Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson, Kristin Scott Thomas full cast
Duration: 16 mins
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