These ITV productions are part of the Harold Pinter season at BFI Southbank. You can find the full details of the season here.
BFI introduction to The Collection: First seen on television in 1961, and later on stage, this is a classic Pinter play that seems to be about the elusiveness of truth. It also shows, as two couples seek to resolve what took place one night in a Leeds hotel room, how people manipulate the unverifiable to their own advantage. Olivier, in a stellar cast, is unforgettable as a vindictive couturier.
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BFI introduction to The Lover:A brilliant play that suggests Noel Coward crossed with Jean Genet: a study in the way any long-term relationship needs to be sustained by fantasy and illusion. Pinter also revealingly suggests, as in The Collection, that women more easily cope with sexual roleplay and contain more equilibrium than men. Merchant and Badel are impeccable as a well-heeled couple spicing up the monotony of monogamy.
Here (and above) is an extract from The Collection.
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