Wetherby
(Un pasado en sombras / Un extraño en Wetherby)
(Gran Bretaña, 1985) [Color, 102 m.].
Género: Drama, Misterio.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: David Hare.
Guión: David Hare.
Fotografía: Stuart Harris.
Música: Nick Bicât.
Producción: Simon Relph, Patsy Pollock.
Productora: Film Four International / Greenpoint Films / Zenith Entertainment.
Premios: 1985, Berlín: oso de Oro.
Sinopsis: En la imaginaria localidad inglesa de Wetherby, un hombre asiste sin ser invitado a una reunión en casa de la maestra Jean Travers. Al día siguiente, regresa y se suicida con amargura y paciencia delante de ella… (FILMAFFINITY)
La muerte viene de visita.Sólida película escrita y dirigida por David Hare, que más tarde firmaría los guiones de Las horas y The Reader (El lector). Utiliza un original armazón desestructurado, donde se juega con el presente, y con recuerdos de un pasado reciente y otro más lejano, a veces como flashes de brevísima duración.
Jean es una maestra soltera en cuya casa se cuela un día un tipo que se suicida en su presencia. El día anterior había estado cenando con ella y unos amigos, sin que al parecer nadie le conociera, y dando por sentado que había venido invitado por otros. No parece existir explicación lógica para tal acción, o así lo piensan esos amigos de Jean, un policía que lleva el caso, y una joven que conocía al difunto.
El contexto social en que transcurre la acción es el de los años del dominio político de Margaret Tatcher y Ronald Reagan, y el film sirve para retratar a unos personajes que están básicamente solos, perdieron su oportunidad para el amor, y ahora bajo la capa de una alegría postiza carecen de ideales a los que agarrarse, su vida es completamente anodina y desamorada. El punto de vista de la historia es el de la profesora, estupenda Vanessa Redgrave, bien respaldada por secundarios de lujo como Judi Dench, Ian Holm y Tom Wilkinson. Joely Richardson, hija de Vanessa Redgrave, hace el mismo personaje de joven (DeCine21).
AMG Synopsis: In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling, director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else. Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) is an old-maid schoolmarm who has lived in Wetherby, a small town in northeastern Yorkshire, all of her life. She is still haunted by memories of a passionate love affair with a young man who was later murdered while on military duty in Malaysia nearly 35 years ago in the '50s. One evening, Jean invites a group of friends over for dinner; the group is comprised of two couples, one of which spends the time sniping at each other. A young man, John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is also in the dinner party. Jean thinks he was brought along by one of the couples; the couples, in turn, believe he was invited by Jean -- in short, he is a total stranger that everyone assumes is a friend of someone there. As the evening progresses, political topics of the moment are brought up and chewed over; Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, and other notables of the era are discussed, and various comments are made on the laziness of today's youth. The dinner party ends, and the next day John Morgan comes back to visit Jean. While she is in the midst of preparing tea for them both, he takes out a gun and kills himself. The shock waves from his senseless act later reverberate among the dinner-party guests, as the police investigator tries to piece together the man's background and the dinner party itself. Questions are raised about his motives, and viewers see the dinner party again, moment by moment, in an entirely new light.
AMG Review: Wetherby, David Hare's directorial debut, carries out its elliptical narrative with such artistry and high-mindedness, a viewer might be tempted to overlook its somewhat ponderous conclusion. Vanessa Redgrave leads a stalwart cast that lends the film instant credibility, and while this has the effect of conditioning viewers for great things, it shouldn't dull their expectation for clear resolutions. Even in such a smartly unconventional mystery, the clues and fragments need to pay off in more satisfying ways than they do. Ian Holm, Tom Wilkinson, and Judi Dench join Redgrave in lending their considerable talents, but it's lesser-known Tim McInnerny who commands the viewer's attention, establishing a chilling undercurrent the moment he randomly shoots himself in the home of a horrified professor (Redgrave). As Jean Travers pieces together why she's been targeted as a witness -- perhaps knowing more than she's letting on -- the film dips seamlessly in and out of the present, the recent past, and the distant past. The director, better known as a playwright, has done well to make Wetherby more than just a filmed play. The scenes are composed dynamically, some of them entirely free of dialogue, or even sound. Paradoxically, it's Hare's content that can be a little fuzzy. The last days in the distraught stranger's life are rich with foreboding, but these sections are overshadowed by Hare's ill-advised preoccupation with Jean as a schoolgirl involved in an affair. The thematic similarities between the distant past and the present are quite strained, but Hare asserts their interconnectedness by revealing the climaxes of both storylines in a sequence of alternating shots. This only underscores the false significance assigned to their relationship. Wetherby is the unusual case of an acclaimed writer showing more fitness with form than ideas. Still, he succeeds enough at both to earn high praise.
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