Writer: Ernest Lehman
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
I naively thought that the film will be about the modernist writer Virginia Woolf. The film is considered groundbreaking for the American film industry with the level of profanity and sexual implication that people were not used to seeing in films. It is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee. It was the first film to get nominated for all the academy awards it was eligible for and the first one for the entire principal cast to get nominated as well. Mike Nichols went on to make Graduate for which he is most famous for but I think this will/should be considered as his best.
Rating: 5/5
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