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Adapting her own short story Virginia Gilbert directs this whimsical drama about two British couples that meet in rural France. Husband and wife Joseph (James Fox) and Brenda (Brenda Fricker) have long since slipped into staid retirement, but a chance meeting sees Joseph become gently infatuated with arty twentysomething Suzanne …

Joseph Losey’s 1963 satire on the British class system has lost none of its bite. James Fox is the aristo newly moved into his Chelsea townhouse; Dirk Bogarde (shedding his matinée-idol image) is the insidious manservant with an agenda of his own. Harold Pinter, in the first of three collaborations …