The only full-length film biography of one of the most important playwrights of the second half of the 20th century, whose play ‘Look Back in Anger’ transformed theatre.
Here Osborne talks about his struggles, his wives (five in all), his rejection by society, his eventual triumph. The film includes extracts of several of his important plays, with Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson, Robert Stephens, Albert Finney and Natasha Richardson. As Osborne himself says: “These days, newspapers and television pour out opinions with a frenzy that marked the production of spitfires during the last war”. Tony Palmer
UK 2003 Tony Palmer 125m
Sun 10 May 17:30
Tickets £8
