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Frenesia del piacere

Titolo originale: The Pumpkin Eater
  • 1964
  • T
  • 1h 58min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,1/10
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Anne Bancroft in Frenesia del piacere (1964)
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La bella madre di cinque figli, Jo, lascia la banalità del suo matrimonio con il secondo marito Giles per sposare il suo appassionato sceneggiatore, Jake Armitage.La bella madre di cinque figli, Jo, lascia la banalità del suo matrimonio con il secondo marito Giles per sposare il suo appassionato sceneggiatore, Jake Armitage.La bella madre di cinque figli, Jo, lascia la banalità del suo matrimonio con il secondo marito Giles per sposare il suo appassionato sceneggiatore, Jake Armitage.

  • Regia
    • Jack Clayton
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Penelope Mortimer
    • Harold Pinter
  • Star
    • Anne Bancroft
    • Peter Finch
    • James Mason
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,1/10
    3148
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Jack Clayton
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Penelope Mortimer
      • Harold Pinter
    • Star
      • Anne Bancroft
      • Peter Finch
      • James Mason
    • 51Recensioni degli utenti
    • 27Recensioni della critica
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    • Candidato a 1 Oscar
      • 6 vittorie e 6 candidature totali

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    Interpreti principali56

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    Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft
    • Jo Armitage
    Peter Finch
    Peter Finch
    • Jake
    James Mason
    James Mason
    • Conway
    Janine Gray
    Janine Gray
    • Beth
    Cedric Hardwicke
    Cedric Hardwicke
    • Jo's Father
    Rosalind Atkinson
    • Jo's Mother
    Alan Webb
    Alan Webb
    • Jake's Father
    Richard Johnson
    Richard Johnson
    • Giles
    Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith
    • Philpot
    Eric Porter
    Eric Porter
    • Psychiatrist
    Cyril Luckham
    Cyril Luckham
    • Doctor
    Anthony Nicholls
    Anthony Nicholls
    • Surgeon
    John Franklyn-Robbins
    John Franklyn-Robbins
    • Parson
    John Junkin
    John Junkin
    • Undertaker
    Yootha Joyce
    Yootha Joyce
    • Woman in Hairdressers
    Lesley Nunnerley
    • Waitress at Zoo
    • (as Leslie Nunnerley)
    Gerald Sim
    Gerald Sim
    • Man at Party
    Frank Singuineau
    Frank Singuineau
    • The King of Israel
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      • Jack Clayton
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Penelope Mortimer
      • Harold Pinter
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    Recensioni degli utenti51

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    10andya-5

    Virtuoso film-making highlights a brutally satiric examination of modern marriage

    The Pumpkin Eater, which for many years was my favorite movie, is a neglected masterpiece of the British New Wave. I'm not sure whether its lack of recognition is attributable more to its misanthropic point of view or to Jack Clayton's sparse filmography (he never developed the immediately recognizable personal style required for elevation to the auteur pantheon). It didn't help that initial reviewers badly misunderstood the film -- Dwight Macdonald thought it was a typical "women's film", meant to provide erotic titillation! On the other hand, feminist critics probably weren't eager to defend a film that could be interpreted as anti-abortion propaganda (also a misreading). Perhaps a more mature feminism will reclaim this film.

    Admittedly, the movie is difficult to understand on a first viewing -- both because of its intricate flashback structure and its complexities of tone and attitude. It took me several viewings to fully sort out the plot, and several more to realize what I was actually seeing -- a very, very black comedy. In this respect it's worth placing with the darkest works of Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green.

    The film catches its participants at the top of their form: Pinter never wrote a better screenplay, Anne Bancroft (arguably) never gave a better performance, Peter Finch certainly didn't, and Maggie Smith and James Mason are deliciously evil in supporting roles. There are too many marvelous moments to list them all, but watch especially for the zoo scene between Bancroft and Mason (who are clearly having a great time) and for the slyly-written scene where Finch learns that his wife is pregnant -- again.

    So why is it no longer my favorite movie? My admiration for its technique is unabated, but as I get older I find the film's nasty tone harder and harder to take. There's not an admirable human being in the whole movie -- they're all foolish, duplicitous, or vindictive. I can't live with these people, much as I've enjoyed eavesdropping on them over the years.
    9MOscarbradley

    Classy, even if feelings are kept at bay

    If "The Pumpkin Eater" has a fault it is that it's so glacial, so cocooned in its world of upper-middle class ennui it may leave you feeling a little drained. Otherwise, this is quite close to perfection. Adapted, superbly and to the extent that he makes it his own, from Penelope Mortimer's novel, by Harold Pinter it tells the story of Jo, (Anne Bancroft), a thrice married mother of several children, (by all three husbands), whose life has started to spectacularly unravel. Jo seems to be the kind of woman who can't stop having children but who doesn't seem cut out for motherhood. Inflicting her existing brood on Jake, (Peter Finch), husband No. 3, does little for their marriage. Jake is an incorrigible philanderer or maybe he just can't stand being at home with a pack of screaming, spoiled brats. Then again he's 'a screen-writer' so his profession offers both glamour and the opportunity for multiple infidelities. Things come to a head when Jo has a mental breakdown 'in Harrods of all places' to quote Jake.

    Being Pinter, the film is both elliptical and chilly. It's magnificently made, (the director is Jack Clayton), but you struggle to feel anything for Jo or Jake. It's a world that Pinter and company know well but the rest of us may well feel we are being kept at a distance. But don't let that put you off; if you want your mind engaged at the expense of your emotions you will have a high old time. This is classy, intelligent stuff.

    It is superbly cast and played. Some performances don't amount to more than cameos, (Cedric Hardwicke and Alan Webb as Jo and Jake's fathers, Maggie Smith smilingly stealing Jo's husband right from under her nose and best of all, Yootha Joyce as the vindictive and unstable woman in the hairdressers). At the centre there is Bancroft and Finch as the couple struggling through their marriage and they are both marvelous. Finch, in particular, gives Jake an air of likability that may be absent from the script and Bancroft gets Jo's vulnerability spot on. As the husband of Jake's most recent conquest, James Mason is magnificently venomous and his scenes with Bancroft at the zoo and his final scene with Finch, ('You made me wet'), are master-classes in the art of acting.

    The movie came out in 1964 and quickly disappeared. Watching it recently with a friend he described it as 'a miserable film' and while I think it a superb film, a near-masterpiece, I know exactly what he means. It is a film distinctly lacking in 'nice' characters and it generates very little warmth. Audiences who, back in the sixties might have admired the film, were unlikely to feel anything towards it and consequently it is seldom revived. A pity because, cold as it is, it is also one of the finest films of its decade.
    10rockstar74

    My Favorite Film

    I love Mortimer's book and Pinter's script follows it closely. Bancroft has always been my favorite actress and I think this is her greatest performance. I'm glad she flew to England and convinced Jack Clayton to hire her. It is no wonder her talent has been compared to Magnani! Finch and Mason are flawless but it is definitely Bancroft's film. She is so convincing it is as though you can read her character's every thought through her facial expressions. She was robbed of the Academy Award. Yootha Joyce is excellent in a bit part during a beauty parlor scene. The actors in this film are all so good that I feel like I am peering into the lives of real people. Anyone who has been in a relationship with someone who has been unfaithful can relate to this film. I love Clayton's use of flashback to tell Jo's story. I think he was an underrated director. The score by Georges Delerue is beautiful and I wish it were available in his cd catalog.
    10dmwhite50

    Brilliant Study Of A Marriage

    There are scenes from this movie that have been burned into my memory for years-- Anne Bancroft being accosted a crazed and lonely housewife while in a beauty parlor, her nervous breakdown in the middle of Harrod's in London, James Mason revealing her husband's infidelity to her cruelly while having tea at the zoo-- The Pumpkin Eater is one of my favorite movies. Anne Bancroft never gave a better performance-- she is startlingly good-- plus the excellent Harold Pinter screenplay and the brilliant direction of Jack Clayton-- this film is an eloquent essay on isolation and emptiness among other things. I recommend this film to all serious students of acting, writing, and directing. What a brilliant performance by the great Anne Bancroft. She won many awards for inc,, and should have won the Oscar Award also.
    7mls4182

    A disappointment

    I've never seen a film with so many great talents giving technically good performances with a script that offers virtually no insight into the characters or their motivations.

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      This movie never explains its title, which refers to a traditional children's rhyme: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater/Had a wife, but couldn't keep her/So he put her in a shell/And there he kept her very well." This serves as the epigraph of Penelope Mortimer's original novel.
    • Blooper
      In the shot after Jake pours out his drink on Conway, the film is being run backwards for some reason, as the smoke from the cigarette clearly indicates.
    • Citazioni

      [last lines]

      Jo Armitage: Yes. I'll have one.

    • Connessioni
      Featured in James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate (1984)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 24 settembre 1964 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Regno Unito
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Turville, Buckinghamshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(Cobstone Windmill - the Armitage's country house with views of town below)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Romulus Films
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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      • 1.85 : 1

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