Dirk Bogarde,
Sarah Miles,
Wendy Craig,
James Fox,
Catherine Lacey
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Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master. S... read more
DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
Stats: 176 reviews
This is a superb, sinister movie of the very highest class. Unlike the character Tony (James Fox) who is upper class without being high class, if you get my drift. You cannot really sympathise with Tony, who toys with some high falutin' development projects but basically is a was... read more
"The Servant" (most noted for it's collaboration between play write Harold Pinter and Director Joseph Losey and for Dirk Bogarde's BAFTA winning performance) is a bit to elusive to truly engage, but it's intoxicating photography, subtly creepy performances and enough homoerotic p... read more
Let's play master and servant! A subtly twisted trademark Pinter screenplay. Collaboration with Joseph Losey for direction. Bogarde in a polished, sinister, homoerotic role. Film making doesn't get much better than this.
I know a lot of people think this is a really great movie, but I couldn't get past the beginning, it was way too slow and boring. Maybe it gets better later, I'll have to see it again sometime.
Games of moral corruption, sexual appetites, blackmail, social class scaling, subjugation and conformism; to a certain extent all tabu themes of its time period, explored with subtle elegance and perfectly drawn tension. Hypnotic use of angles and lightning. powerful dramatic per... read more
Hypnotizing, elegant, ambiguous suspense. Dirk Bogarde is beyond words, what an incredible performance. A bit slow, but impossible to look away from. Is it a social critique? Probably, but I'm still trying to figure it all out. Excellent.
Marvelous film. Play-like in structure (Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, after all), yet it never feels stiff or stagy. That's a tricky feat. Makes an intriguing companion piece to 1970's "Performance," which *also* features James Fox playing a character who's changed/corrupte... read more
I liked this movie, but I think it would appeal more to it's targrt audience, namely the English. As an American I'm sure I missed nuances of the battle here between the master and his servent.
It is a flesh-creeping demonstration of human destructiveness that Mr. Pinter and Mr. Losey are presenting in this film, and it is made all the more horrifying by the genteel surroundings in which it ... Full Review
The film is very studied and smooth, even though it deals in sexual hysteria; it could use some of the roughness and drive of Losey's early work. Full Review
Slight comedy based on the antics of a group of naughty Brit medical students at a London hospital. Full Review
A masterful cat and mouse game. Full Review
Opaque but hypnotically absorbing allegory of power, exploitation, and sublimated sexuality in a class-based society. Full Review
Certainly difficult to define, this period piece messes with genres, power relationships and your head. Full Review
Neither Pinter's pregnant dialogue nor the generally svelte performances can disguise the fact that there's less here than meets the eye and ear. Full Review
The formidable triumvirate of Bogarde, Losey and Pinter each stamp their personalities on this deliciously unpleasant film. Full Review
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