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Billy il bugiardo

Titolo originale: Billy Liar
  • 1963
  • T
  • 1h 38min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,2/10
7431
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Billy il bugiardo (1963)
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and famil... Leggi tuttoA lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

  • Regia
    • John Schlesinger
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Keith Waterhouse
    • Willis Hall
  • Star
    • Tom Courtenay
    • Julie Christie
    • Wilfred Pickles
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,2/10
    7431
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • John Schlesinger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Keith Waterhouse
      • Willis Hall
    • Star
      • Tom Courtenay
      • Julie Christie
      • Wilfred Pickles
    • 91Recensioni degli utenti
    • 82Recensioni della critica
    • 82Metascore
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    • Nominato ai 6 BAFTA Award
      • 1 vittoria e 7 candidature totali

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    Tom Courtenay
    Tom Courtenay
    • Billy Fisher
    Julie Christie
    Julie Christie
    • Liz
    Wilfred Pickles
    Wilfred Pickles
    • Geoffrey Fisher
    Mona Washbourne
    Mona Washbourne
    • Alice Fisher
    Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies
    • Grandma Florence
    Finlay Currie
    Finlay Currie
    • Duxbury
    Gwendolyn Watts
    • Rita
    Helen Fraser
    • Barbara
    Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter
    • Emanuel Shadrack
    Rodney Bewes
    Rodney Bewes
    • Arthur Crabtree
    George Innes
    George Innes
    • Stamp
    Leslie Randall
    • Danny Boon
    Patrick Barr
    Patrick Barr
    • Insp. MacDonald
    Ernest Clark
    Ernest Clark
    • Prison Governor
    Godfrey Winn
    • Disc Jockey
    Jim Brady
    Jim Brady
    • Prisoner Escort
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    Aleksander Browne
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      • Willis Hall
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    doktor d

    Highly recommended early Schlesinger film

    Billy Liar

    John Schlesinger's excellent British comedy-drama concerns Billy (Tom Courtenay), a middle class young man who despises his position as a funeral parlor bookkeeper. Billy spends the majority of his time daydreaming of a much more interesting life filled with conquests, esp. of women. He'd love to quit his dead-end job and become a writer, but when the opportunity arrives, is he too content living in his head and telling lies to embellish his otherwise mundane existence? Too afraid to realize his dreams? This quirky slice-of-life is thematically similar to Le Distrait (The Daydreamer), a 1975 French release with an entirely different conclusion. A young, glowing Julie Christie appears briefly in Billy Liar, injecting color, life, and hope into Billy's dreary, black and white existence. Highly recommended. -- David Ross Smith
    8Xstal

    Pants on Fire...

    Your trapped inside a home with aging parents (and a grandparent), in a town you'd really rather not frequent, working at the undertaker, you're the epitome of faker, although you have a little world where you're content. Now you've got yourself into a spot of bother, an engagement ring to two is what you've proffered, plus a stash of calendars, because of your malingerers, and the petty cash is short inside its coffers.

    Never a dull moment in the life of Billy, as he perpetually puts himself into situations and scenarios that are all his own doing, with wonderful performances all round that still have an impact to this day.
    9funang

    There's a Billy Liar in each of us~~

    Most novels may not necessary translate well to the stage, let alone to the Big screen. 'Billy Liar' has achieved all that. I have just recently discovered this 'hidden' gem from among the throngs of DVD shelves. The reason I 'picked it up' was due largely to the director's name, John Schlesinger. Having seen his catapult to American fame 'Midnight Cowboy', I reckon why not check out his earlier British work. Boy was I astonished!

    First of all, the script. The adapted screenplay by the original writers Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall is wickedly witty and performative for theatre dramatics, yet it crosses perfectly to the realms of cinema. The cut-aways to the lavishly staged dream sequences are so effective, so in contrast to the stark realism that we get from most of the on-location filming (from the DVD bonus features, the two writers actually take you on a present day 'tour' of a couple of the 'real'locations, juxtaposed with snippets of the film sequences at exactly the same spots).

    Also commendable is the black and white cinematography by veteran Bristish lensman Denys Coop. Done in Cinemascope, the depth of Hinchcliffe Avenue can only be fully realised in the widescreen format, so avoid the re-formatted tv release at all costs!

    And I must say the most amazing thing about the film is still the performance. Schlesinger rarely fails to bring out the best from his actors, and this seminal work is no exception. All the supporting cast, from 'Mr Shadrack ', Billy's family and girlfriends played very well to be the 'plastic reality' that's driving Billy insane. Hence, he seeks solance,affirmation and escape in his fantasies and lies, but ultimately we know which track he ends back on.

    Tom Courtenay is simply 'Billy Liar'. Somehow, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Ewen Macgregor, or perhaps that's just me. It was mentioned that Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, who have both played the title character on stage, were considered for the the film role at the same time. I can't help but only wonder how it would've turned out if Finney got the part instead...

    Last but not least, who can resist Julie Christie, aka Liz. She is Billy's object of desire cum temptation cum salvation, very much in contrast to Billy's inhabited world... simply beautiful. The intro sequence of Liz as she walks along the streets of Bradford is another highlight of the film, undescribable with words. You gotta see it for ya self~

    What else can I say about 'Billy Liar'. I guess everyone was once a 'Billy Liar', or still has a Billy Liar in him or herself. Well, at least I can say it for me self. Perhaps on a finer day, I WILL CATCH thee TRAIN to 'London'.......

    I give it 9/10 :-)
    barbarella70

    Wonderful British classic

    Effective slice of life comedy/drama tells the story of scared, optimistic Billy (Tom Courtenay) who lives in a fantasy world where he's always a hero. Funny and charming, the film also packs a slight emotional punch that is somewhat similar to The Last Picture Show. Based on a stage play, the story of Billy Liar has since been revamped as a musical yet it's this 1963 version that works best.

    Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie (Liz) leapfrogged to stardom with their performances but every actor is beautifully cast: Mona Washbourne, Wilfred Pickles, and Ethel Griffies are the character types who give Billy's family heartbreaking nuances while Helen Fraser and Gwendolyn Watts bring a refreshingly sympathetic humanity to his polar opposite fiancees.

    Liz's entrance, Billy's fantasies, a dance hall sequence, a quiet hospital exchange between Billy and his mother, and the final choice are classic scenes that have been constructed with genius by John Schlesinger (Darling, Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday). The Criterion Collection's DVD treatment of Billy Liar is a standout and shouldn't be missed. It's a great film.
    oldreekie546

    Maturing like good wine (and no lie!)

    Tragi-comic misadventures of a young man who invents a fantasy world as cover for his troubles and dreary middle-class existence in sixties Yorkshire.

    Billy Liar was always a terrific film, but like so many of its kitchen-sink contemporaries (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving) it has actually grown in substance and depth since its release. Part of the reason is the extensive use of on-location filming all these movies utilised: a post-war industrial landscape long since lost and therefore all the more vivid in its posterity. But where Billy Liar gets a bigger march on its predecessors - whether by intent or accident - is that it captures this landscape on the cusp of the swinging sixties, when architecture, culture, leisure and morality were all rapidly changing. In doing so it heralds many of the themes and issues that were to dominate western culture for the remainder of the 20th Century: pop culture, advertising, media obsession, celebrity, race relations and fantasy lifestyles.

    Billy seemed an endearing but essentially lost soul in his day; an immature weakling unable to face up to the realities and responsibilities of adulthood. But looked at from the hindsight of 40 years he now seems symptomatic of what is today regarded as normal, almost aspirational, behaviour: self-absorption; avoidance of responsibility; glorification of celebrity; escape culture.

    Whether director John Schelsinger and writers Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall foresaw all the cultural and sociological changes they captured is something only they would know (they surely couldn't have seen the significance of casting Julie Christie - one of the ultimate swinging sixties icons). Whatever the case, what makes Billy Liar such a fascinating film is the casual, uncritical and unselfconscious way its many themes are observed. Its lack of preachiness or self-righteousness help keep it a fresh and funny entertainment that can be enjoyed at that level. Its historical importance as a perfect snapshot of a country at a time of rapid and fundamental change is nothing less than priceless.

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      This movie made a star of Julie Christie, even though she's only in it for a total of twelve minutes.
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      In the opening title sequence, where a woman places a blanket over a balcony and runs off, an arm can be seen popping up from behind the wall and throwing the blanket off the balcony.
    • Citazioni

      Alice Fisher: If you're in any more trouble, Billy, it's not something you can leave behind you, you know. You put it in your suitcase, and you take it with you.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in Film Review: Julie Christie & John Schlesinger (1967)
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      Performed by Muriel Day (dubbed by unknown vocalist)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 10 maggio 1964 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Billy Liar
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 37 Midland Road, Baildon, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Billy's house, Stradhoughton)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Vic Films Productions
      • Waterhall Productions
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      • 236.809 £ (previsto)
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      • 29.153 USD
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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      • 2.35 : 1

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