Robin Redbreast (MacTaggart, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.30pm
This film, one of the strangest and memorable BBC Play for Todays, is part of the 'Roots, Rituals and Phantasmagoria' season at BFI Southbank curated by Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the forthcoming film Starve Acre.
Daniel Kokotajlo introduction:
After being dumped by her partner, Norah moves to the countryside and
falls for a local gamekeeper, with dire consequences. This is a perfect
case study of the city-slicker moving to the country and finding
themselves trapped in the ways of old. For me, Mr Fisher has always been
one of the greatest villains, and a character that influenced the
pagans in Starve Acre; it’s the way he behaves without glee – his
despicable acts carried out with the banal behaviour of someone milking
cows.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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