6.8 /10 1 Votes
6.9/10 Letterboxd Produced by David Rose Release date 1977 Initial release 11 January 1977 Screenplay Mike Leigh Producer David Rose | 6.8/10 IMDb Directed by Mike Leigh Music by Carl Davis Running time 80 minutes Director Mike Leigh Music director Carl Davis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring David Threlfall as Trevor
Clifford Kershaw as Mr Garside
John Wheatley as Ronnie
Angela Curran as Sandra
Kay Adshead as Linda Cast David Threlfall, Kay Adshead, Clifford Kershaw, Pamela Austin, Angela Curran Similar Home Sweet Home, Ivor the Invisible, Cruise of the Gods, Nuts in May, When I'm 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The kiss of death 1977 mike leigh trevor goes around to see linda
The Kiss of Death is a 1977 BBC TV film.
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- The kiss of death 1977 mike leigh trevor goes around to see linda
- The kiss of death 1977 mike leigh trevor and linda out on a date
- Critical responses
- References
Mike Leigh directed 'this whimsical, made-for-television tale about Trevor, (David Threlfall), an unusually bashful mortician's assistant', whose moods and personality really make up the subject of the film. A natural landscape for Leigh's offbeat and bleakly humorous worldview. Leigh has often said the film is one of his favourites, not least because Trevor contains certain autobiographical elements.
Trevor and his friend Ronnie form a foursome with Linda and Sandra. A brake on Trevor's joy in life 'is the factual premonition of everyday death', and the central incident of a cot death affects him profoundly.
The kiss of death 1977 mike leigh trevor and linda out on a date
Critical responses
The film is highly regarded by the critic Michael Coveney, who wrote in a 1996 study of Leigh's work : "The kissing part of The Kiss of Death is an extraordinary scene. Linda and Trevor are on a sofa, she chewing away, he nervously amused but not exactly apprehensive...The playing of Kay Adshead and David Threlfall indicates every stage of this sexual jousting match with faultless accuracy and perception. We glimpse ... an entire catalogue of human emotions in the mating game: anxiety, cruelty, affection, wonder, contempt and playfulness. This is how love scenes are endured in life, not in the movies, but distilled and refined for this movie."