The Go-Between

A gripping film, and often, thanks to cinematographer Gerry Fisher, also a beautiful one, with several stunning shots of the Norfolk countryside at harvest time. Harold Pinter's screenplay, in adeptly interweaving present and past, anticipates by some thirty years work by... Full review

Richly-detailed period romantic drama, told more or less from a child's viewpoint but treated with the maturity one has come to expect from a Losey film (the main plot is interspersed with fragmented clips of the boy as an old man... Full review

I loved this film. I am very upset it hasn't been put on DVD in NorthAmerican Format. It is well done and a true classic. Filmed in one of the most historic estates in England. Most of it is in complete... Full review

Easily one of the best acted, best directed and most intellectually intriguing films I have ever seen. Julie Christie is so lovely that you will never forget her. The screenplay by Pinter is impeccable, building a rhythmic alternation of times and... Full review

L. P. Hartley's mesmerising and haunting novel of the loss of childhood innocence is superbly realised for the cinema by director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter. A visual masterpiece that poetically captures the timeless beauty of the English summer, "The... Full review

Perhaps only a native of England is able to appreciate the subtleties that exist in this seemingly simple tale. Love and sex are universal themes; class divisions maybe less so, and as time passes and classlessness becomes the norm such notions... Full review

Of course, it is all a matter of personal taste. However this film captures the painful endurance of Leo as his country collapses towards war, a rigid society faces its own internal turmoil and Leo is stripped of his innocence before... Full review

I have watched this film several times and still find it quite captivating, despite the piano/singing sequences. The story by Hartley is much reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, written earlier. It has secret passion, deceit and class differences for... Full review

The first time I saw this film, I was 18 years old. Now, almost thirty years later, I am still enthralled by its two atmospheres - a hot summery Norfolk, England at the turn of the century versus a cloudy, rainy,... Full review

Winsome Dominic Guard plays Leo in this movie made from the novel by the famous English physician and author, L. P. Hartley. This was the first movie made by young Guard, who was 15 years old but playing a 13 year... Full review

And he falls in hopeless schoolboy love with the friend's older sister ( Julie Christie ). The sister is engaged to marry well, but she is in love with a roughshod tenant farmer ( Alan Bates ), and she enlists the boy to carry messages back and forth between them. ... Full Review

Halfway between The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1970), also playing in the bfi's Joseph Losey retrospective, he and Harold Pinter teamed up on this prickly drama of extra-marital intrigue among Oxford dons, which begins and ends with the screech... ... Full Article

Fly too close to the sun and your wings singe A Review by Stephen Murray 09/08/2003 At age fifteen, I considered Julie Christie a goddess, so a movie from around that time in which a fifteen-year-old actor portrays a boy... ... Full Article