Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
- 1960
- ·89 min
Un trabajador de fábrica rebelde y de vida dura hace malabares con sus relaciones con dos mujeres, una de las cuales está casada con otro hombre pero embarazada de su hijo.
- Actores
- Albert Finney·Hylda Baker·Rachel Roberts·Shirley Anne Field
- Dirigido por
- Karel Reisz
- Género
- Drama·Romance
- Idioma
- English
- País
- UK
- Director
- Karel Reisz
Three years before the big budget and Oscar winning Tom Jones, the actor who much later in his career starred in films like Big Fish, The Bourne Ultimatum and Skyfall got his debut in this all British film, which featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, from director Karel Reisz (The French Lieutenant's Woman). Basically, set in 1960's Nottingham, young factory machinist Arthur Seaton (BAFTA winning and nominated Albert Finney) is hardworking and only gets paid modest wages, he is angry at many things in his life, including his parents, and he does not to stay living in drudgery like all around him.
I'm surprised I haven't read more (only one that I noticed in one of the other commentaries) about the similarities between this movie and its near clone, Alfie, six years later. Both Brit playboys, both ne'er do-wells, both involving unwed pregnancies and the consequences, and abortion.
The film is about working-class alienation end of.It portrays this brilliantly in the dismal Nottingham factory setting- day after day- in a world where you have one night to put on your teddy boy suit and winkle pickers, and numb yourself stupid with alcohol (and a loose and desperate colleague's wife)- before returning to the grime of your lathe, and another 1000 bolts to make before clock-off.
