Joseph Losey's The Servant hasn't lost any of its mystery over the years since 1963; it might even have gained a bit. After travelling with Susan and spending a couple of days in a friend's house outside London, the couple unexpectedly returns and finds Barrett and Vera, who are actually lovers, in Tony's room. UK: Studio Canal, 2007, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, "Joseph Losey & Harold Pinter: In Search of PoshLust Times", "Films by Harold Pinter: The Servant 1963", The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Servant_(1963_film)&oldid=1008913941, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Winner, Most Promising Newcomer - BAFTA (, Nominee, Most Promising Newcomer - BAFTA (, Nominee, Best Actor - New York Film Critics Circle (Dirk Bogarde), Nominee, Best Director - New York Film Critics Circle (Joseph Losey), Weedman, Christopher (2019). The Servant is a 1963 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. After travelling with Susan and spending a couple of days in a friend's house outside London, the couple unexpectedly returns and finds Barrett and Vera, who are actually lovers, in Tony's room. À Londres, Tony, un jeune aristocrate paresseux emménage dans une confortable maison de ville, il engage Hugo Barrett comme domestique. It's as excellent as I thought it would be. Will Mr Klein clear his name? One of the first films scripted by playwright Harold Pinter, The Servant is as much about gesture and mannerism as about spoken innuendo, and director Joseph Losey keeps the movie thick with suggestion: Hugo's co-conspirator Vera (Sarah Miles) is a study in coy seduction, and the sounds, shadows, and furnishings around the young man's estate are downright suffocating. This is odd because the film seems in many ways so obvious, giving off unmissable hints and signals at almost every moment. The aristocratic Tony (James Fox) moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett (Sir Dirk Bogarde) for all services at home. Written by See the fabulous presenters and gracious winners at this year's Oscars. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Barrett appears to take easily to his new job, and he and Tony form a quiet bond, retaining their social roles. #film #cinema #movies…” Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. Looking for more? The Servant’s narrative eventually catches up to Losey’s stylized formal palette.With both the women in their lives gone from the home, Tony and Barrett embark on a late-film swan dive into no-exit surrealism. As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol. 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