Caught this on the tv again the other day. It's not hard to see why the film made such a fuss at the time. Unlike modern English period dramas this has brooding sexuality in bucket loads. Bates is fantastic as a man who coming to terms with his gasp of sexuality while Oliver Reed as the moody and tense factory owner is set to explode throughout.
Remember Glenda Jackson before she came a left wing politician in a right wing party? If you don't, you need to check this classic film out. She is amazing. The moment when she is she is turned on my Reeds brutality towards his horse by the side of the train track is electric. Then yet again in the pub when she teases the drunk and almost gets raped is also charged. Later with the cows she wants to be dominated by Reed pushing him further and further on. Great stuff. Why can't Merchant Ivory have the balls to make something like this?
Remember Glenda Jackson before she came a left wing politician in a right wing party? If you don't, you need to check this classic film out. She is amazing. The moment when she is she is turned on my Reeds brutality towards his horse by the side of the train track is electric. Then yet again in the pub when she teases the drunk and almost gets raped is also charged. Later with the cows she wants to be dominated by Reed pushing him further and further on. Great stuff. Why can't Merchant Ivory have the balls to make something like this?