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Mood:
- GloomySincereBiting
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Plot:
- Human NatureIntrospectionCouple RelationsDestructive RelationshipInfidelityLove TriangleParents and ChildrenSocial Differences more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceNew Wave
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- EnglandEuropeFactorySmall Town
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, 1960
English
UK
Profile of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
The mood of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning is biting, gloomy, and sincere. The plot centers around the working class, a destructive relationship, and a dysfunctional family. It is a drama and romance movie. Stylistically, it is New Wave. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a factory and in a small town. The setting is England. It happens in the 1950s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in documentaries to give the film a sharp eye for the look and feel of northern England. Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is an young man trapped in a mindless factory job, intrinsically rebelling, but without any focus to his anger. He spends his Saturday nights getting drunk and his Sunday mornings fishing. His affair with a married neighbor, Brenda (Rachel Roberts), seems to please him only for its risky illicitness. Their love scenes are controversial for the palpable expression of real sexual pleasure that Roberts shows in the role of an ordinary English housewife, and because of the fact that she receives, from a handsome younger man, the sexual fulfillment that her husband can not provide.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with it's mix of contemporary alienation, a fantastic jazz score, and a realistic atmosphere, resonates with Finney's charm and unexplainable rage at the world.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 3 April 1961 |
| Runtime: | 89 min |
Cast and Crew
as Arthur Seaton
as Doreen
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