The Servant

Film - 1963

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The Servant it's a movie with Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey Full cast. Directed by Joseph Losey. Original title The Servant Genre Drama.

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Francesca Arca

"The Servant" is such an exceptional film that it leaves you speechless. Claustrophobic, bad, dark. Losey stages the eternal sadistic relationship between different personalities, the servant and the master. Without any discounts and accompanied by magnificent cinematography, this film is without a doubt a milestone in the history of cinema! Read all

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Balkan Castevet

Losery directs a wonderful film full of tension where the balance of power between the characters on stage is reversed, effectively staging a struggle between the wealthier class and those who have less. The film is full of long shots and camera movements and they are not never free, in fact these serve to shift the points of view of the subjects on the scene but also to have multiple subjects cohabit the scene in order to grasp their reactions in "real" time. Barrett, the servant and Tony, the landlord they are great characters in their respective roles and Losery also insists a lot on creating a homoerotic verve between the two.Tony begins the film who has to put the house in order and Barret will take care of this by obtaining the trust of the bourgeois.The management between Susan, girlfriend by Tony and Barret is excellent, you can immediately notice the distrust between the two, "he is omnipresent" says Susan and in fact the direction makes Barret appear continuously to undermine the intimacy of the engaged couple. The wide angle of the mirror that reflects the characters is wonderful and anticipates the future reversal of the situation. Between Barret and Susan, the sequence shot is memorable with Susan's continuous orders to show and reiterate her role superiority where the viewer can thus see and understand all the timing and annoyance that Susan brings to Barret. Vera's entrance on the scene is also excellent, presented as Barret's sister, preceded by the excellent scene of the servant in the telephone booth looking at the legs of the waiting women, pointing out the excesses of short skirts which he will then also do to Vera.These episodes cast further doubts on Barret, on his plan even Susan herself will ask him what he is really looking for in this house.In fact the film plays on how everything is a Read all

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Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…