Sunday, October 19, 2003

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Maybe this should be classified as a horror film. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor play a university professor and his wife who are constantly at each other's throats. They invite two others home from a faculty party at 2am, they all get drunk, and the truth starts to come out. Except that you can't tell what's truth and what's just a game. Up until the end and possibly after it's over. Definitely don't watch this film if you're depressed about your marriage or your partnership. You might end up seeing elements of your interaction in the performances. Although I doubt many wives are as braying as Taylor makes hers. She won an Oscar for her performance, and it's deserved, but I think Burton should have won a parallel Oscar as well. Where would one be without the other?

year: 1966
length: 134 min.
rating: 3.5
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/combined

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