Featuring a formidable central performance by Laurence Oliver one of Britain s most revered actors this BAFTA-nominated television play was adapted by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) from the novel by John Fowles; a distinguished supporting cast includes Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. Henry Breasley (Olivier) is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by David Williams (Rees) a brash young artist commissioned to produce a biographical study of the great man. Breasley shares his home in the South of France with two young English girls both former... art students Diana and Anne. In this strange mnage David is left in no doubt about his host's views on modern abstract art. However he is puzzled by the old man's relationship with the girls especially when he also finds himself strongly attracted to Diana... [show more]
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Based on a John Fowles novel and made for British television, this is a typical Fowles vehicle with multiple plot twists and turns. When an artist, famous in his day but embittered and frightened by the changes around him, isolates himself in a French chateau with two young female artists, his life begins to take on some normalcy. When a handsome young male student arrives, however, the dynamic tensions between the characters become a key factor in this movie.
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