Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The servant / Springbok Films ; Joseph Losey, director ; Harold Pinter, scripter.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

Summary:

The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously disorienting cinematography and a masterful script by playwright Harold Pinter merge in The Servant, a tour de force of mounting psychosexual menace.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 1182

Criterion collection ; 1182.

Subjects:

Master and servant -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Social classes -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Male friendship -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.