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“The Winslow
Boy” at The
Theatre Dec. 10
BY ROSIE DAY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Lorraine and Ted Resting highly recommend this movie based on an actual 1910 British court case about an upper middle-class family defending the honor of its young son. David Mamet directs this adaptation of a 1946 Terrence Rattigan play and the British cast includes Mamet’s wife, Rebecca Pidgeon along with Nigel Hawthorne and Gemma Jones.
The film works as a precisely calibrated war of nerves in which truth and deceit are all-important. The court case deals with a 13-year-old cadet at a naval academy who is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and is expelled from school. Mamet ignores the question of the boy’s guilt or innocence and instead concentrates on the intense self-control of the boy’s family.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times says that this film “is photographed by Benoit Delhomme with a deliberate debt to John Singer Sargent’s composition and lighting.” Maslin goes on to praise Ms. Pidgeon’s “arch acting style that is central to the overall tone, also defining the film’s eccentricity. Hawthorne, in a wonderful performance, inhabits the role of Arthur Winslow with wry urbanity and stirring conviction, fully capturing the weight of what the Winslows endure.”
RAAC is sponsoring this movie that will be shown at The Theatre on Gay Street, Washington at 8 p.m. on Dec. 10. (G, 110 minutes)
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