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Showing posts with label Tom Conti. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Blade on the Feather (1980)

BotF contains within it complexities and themes that Potter returned to often, but which I can’t mention because their unearthing is a part of the journey.
Donald Pleasence plays a reclusive author who's having a hard time existing in the not-quite-perfect seclusion he’s created for himself, accentuated by the invasive camera angles and sharp editing of time. Tom Conti's character is an intellectual who’s writing a thesis on the author, meaning getting close to him is of paramount importance. But there are secrets on all sides.

4 playing fields out of 5