In those days, you fell in love with your own class. Or found a Go-Between.
Director: Joseph Losey
Producer: John Heyman, Norman Priggen, Denis Johnson
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
116 min
Rating: 6.772/10
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Top Cast
Julie Christie
Lady Marian Trimingham
Alan Bates
Ted Burgess
Edward Fox
Hugh Trimingham
Michael Redgrave
The Older Leo Colston
Dominic Guard
The Young Leo Colston
Margaret Leighton
Mrs Maudsley
Movie Info
Director: Joseph Losey
Producer: John Heyman, Norman Priggen, Denis Johnson
Production Companies: EMI Films
Countries: United Kingdom
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CinemaSerf:
Sadly, time has not been very kind to the potency of this film. In 2020s society, the overwhelming feeling of "so what?" is hard to shake off; despite some really strong performances. Dominic Guard is "Leo", just 13 when he is invited to summer at the Norfolk country home of one of his classmates. He quickly befriends his older sister "Marian" (Julie Christie) and is soon acting - innocently, at first - as her courier passing ostensibly harmless letters between herself, her fiancée "Hugh" (Edward Fox) and a swarthy tenant farmer "Ted" (Alan Bates). Guard is great as the young man who starts to put two and two together as he slowly gets caught up in this menage-à-trois whilst trying to accommodate his own sexual awakening. His own naive inquisitiveness gives his character an engaging and frustrating quality that we might all have related to, once upon a time. Losey's pace is off, though - it can be quite a slow burn at times and, unusually, I found the score from Michel Legrand quite distractingly repetitive. The cinematography showed off the locale to perfection and the dialogue from LP Hartley via Harold Pinter succinctly demonstrates class distinction and prejudice well.