The Miracle Worker (Penn, 1962): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.10pm
This presentation features an introduction by Clare Baines, BFI Inclusion Partner and Founder, Crip Club. There are other screenings in September and October. Details here.
Time Out review:
Arthur Penn's remarkable screen version of William Gibson's play about Helen
Keller, which he directed on Broadway. It's a stunningly impressive
piece of work, typically (for Penn) deriving much of its power from the
performances. Patty Duke as the young girl born deaf and blind, and Anne Bancroft
as the stubborn Irish governess who helps her overcome her inability to
speak, spark off each other with a violence and emotional honesty
rarely seen in the cinema, lighting up each other's loneliness,
vulnerability, and plain fear. What is in fact astonishing is the way
that, while constructing a piece of very carefully directed and
intelligently written melodrama, Penn manages to avoid sentimentality or
even undue optimism about the value of Helen's education, and the way
he achieves such a feeling of raw spontaneity in the acting.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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