What to expect
Mike Nichols uses close-ups, movement, and changing locations to keep a famously verbal drama cinematic. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton make cruelty feel rehearsed, spontaneous, and intimately co-authored.
How to ease in
The games have names, but you do not need to catalogue every rule. Follow who is invited to participate, who tries to stop, and what each couple protects by continuing.
Heads-up
A late-night drink between two academic couples becomes an escalating struggle over marriage, status, and shared fictions.
I find the laughter as revealing as the insults. Everyone knows the performance is dangerous, yet humour keeps making one more round seem possible.
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I find the laughter as revealing as the insults. Everyone knows the performance is dangerous, yet humour keeps making one more round seem possible.
— Momo
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