In Celebration (1975)
Dirección: Lindsay Anderson
Guión: David Storey. Obra: David Storey
Música: Christopher Gunning
Fotografía: Dick Bush
Compañías: Coproducción Reino Unido-Estados Unidos; The American Film Theatre
Género: Drama
Reino Unido
131 min.
Cast:
Steven Shaw: Brian Cox
Mrs Burnett: Gabrielle Daye
Mr. Shaw: Bill Owen
Colin Shaw: James Bolam
Andrew Shaw : Alan Bates
Mrs. Shaw: Constance Chapman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073158/
Sinopsis:
En una ciudad minera de Yorkshire, tres hermanos universitarios vuelven a casa de sus padres proletarios para celebrar su 40 aniversario de boda, pero oscuros secretos les aguardan... (FILMAFFINITY)
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From allmovie:
One of the more cinematic entries in the mid-1970s American Film Theatre series, In Celebration is adapted from the play by David Storey. Lindsay Anderson, who directed the original stage version, reassembles his cast for this filmization. Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox play Andrew, Colin and Steven, the well-educated sons of roughhewn coal miner "Mr. Shaw" (Bill Owen) and his wife (Constance Chapman). On the occasion of their parents' wedding anniversary, the three sons return to their dank little home village. All three boys have become successful, but only Bolam is comfortable with his success. To his parents' dismay, Andrew announces that he has given up his law practice to become an artist; he also confesses to harboring homosexual inclinations. Prompted by the embittered Andrew, the other sons churn up memories of their childhood that they--and their parents--had hoped to keep buried. -- Hal Erickson
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Arriba el director Lindsay Anderson (dcha.) dando instrucciones
a James Bolam (Izda. arriba) y Brian Cox (Izda. abajo)
Utilizing the same brilliant cast as In Celebration's original highly acclaimed Royal Court Theater run, director Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man, If) re-imagines his stage triumph into a riveting cinematic experience. Anderson grounds David Storey's ferocious and poignant drama in a setting that as realistic as the playwright's caustic portrait of generational hypocrisy is universal.
In their tiny house in a Yorkshire mining town, God-fearing and hardworking Mr. and Mrs. Shaw (Bill Owen and Constance Chapman) welcome their sons home to celebrate the couple's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival, more and more of the Shaw's model blue collar family facade begins to chip away. Middle son Colin's (James Bolam) engagement has placed him on the path to a loveless marriage. Barely shouldering the burdens of his shattered artisitic aspirations and his own family, Steven, the baby, brilliantly played by Brian Cox (Manhunter, 25th Hour), is on the threshold of a nervous breakdown. But the toaster tossed into this already scalding theatrical bath is Alan Bates (Georgy Girl, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters) as eldest son Andrew. As father, mother, and brothers futiley try to hide the truth from themselves and each other, Bates' Andrew tears into the Shaw family's carefully maintained fictions with animal fury and all-too-human bitterness.
Anderson's spare and elegant direction grants his ensemble the space to collide and retreat even within the cramped confines of the Shaw's collier's cottage. In Anderson's sensitive hands, In Celebration becomes the visionary antithesis of John Ford's How Green Was My Valley and a cautionary yet inspiring tableau of a modern family living at a medieval level of disharmony.
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New York Times:
"David Storey's "In Celebration," the American Film Theater's third offering in its current subscription season, brilliantly demonstrates what the A.F.T. is supposed to be up to: presenting films that preserve the quality and excitement of superior theatrical performances of plays we might not otherwise be able to see."In Celebration" is an early play by Mr. Storey, the English novelist ("This Sporting Life") and playwright who has been represented on Broadway by "Home" and "The Changing Room." Although "In Celebration" has been done by the Arena Stage in Washington, it's never been seen in New York, an oversight now corrected by this fine, spare screen adaptation, directed by Lindsay Anderson with most of the cast he directed in the play's original Royal Court production in London.The film, which was given two performances at selected theaters here yesterday, will be repeated twice today."In Celebration" is a family play that recalls most immediately O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" though the spectacular passions of the O'Neill characters appear muted in Mr. Storey's work. The passions are there, certainly, but they are inhibited as much by love as by class attitudes. Also, they lack the furious poetry with which the Tyrones of "Long Day's Journey" expressed themselves while tearing into one another.The outbursts of Mr. Storey's characters are in no way cathartic. They reveal ancient wounds, which, seen briefly, are scratched again in passing. New scabs form on old scars and everyone tries to ignore the pain.The setting is a coal mining town in the north of England and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of a wiry, 64-year-old miner named Shaw (Bill Owen) and the girl above his station he married 40 years earlier after getting her in trouble. Mrs. Shaw (Constance Chapman) is a model wife and mother, the principal mover behind the three sons who went to the university, moved out of the working class and now, each in a different way, feel disconnected from their environments.Andrew (Alan Bates), the eldest, has thrown over his career as a lawyer to become an abstract painter of no great drive or talent. Colin (James Bolam) is a successful labor negotiator for a large automobile company. Colin is a fastidious man. He talks in upbeat clichés but he clings to his self-confidence with desperation, as if it were the only life-preserver around. Steven Shaw (Brian Cox), the youngest son, is on dead-center, the father of four children and a writer with a block the size of the Tower of London.In the course of the reunion, Mr. Storey presents a family portrait that is immensely moving and sad. The cramped, neat little row house, recently refurnished by the affluent Colin, hides skeletons everywhere. Resentments fester but only Andrew, played with edgy flamboyance by Mr. Bates, comes close to exposing them. Andrew remembers his mother bragging of having once studied "human hygiene," then he adds: "There are no alien bodies in this house."They are all alien bodies, Mr. Storey seems to be saying, but through no conscious fault of anyone. Mrs. Shaw, played by Miss Chapman with a kind of near-sighted innocence, may well be the villain even though there's never been any malice in her.Mr. Anderson, who directed the film version of "This Sporting Life," has succeeded in making a very complete, full-bodied film of Mr. Storey's play without being tricky or intrusive. When the camera ranges beyond the Shaw parlor, the principal battleground, there is always a point to the movement. Mr. Anderson has also gotten terrific performances from everyone, especially Mr. Bates, Miss Chapman and Mr. Cox, as the most troubled of the Shaw sons.Toward the end of the film, "In Celebration" recalls Chekhov. More things have been said than anyone wants to acknowledge. In spite of this, life will go on more or less as before. There is a major difference between Chekhov and Mr. Storey, however. There is no brighter tomorrow for the Shaws. It's already arrived—and it's no less bleak than yesterday."
Extras are interviews with Alan Bates, David Storey and Edie Landau from 2002-3
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