A Taste of Honey (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 23, 2016
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin & Dora Bryan | |
Performer: | Robert Stephens | |
Directed by | Tony Richardson | |
Edited by | Antony Gibbs | |
Screenplay by | Tony Richardson & Shelagh Delaney | |
Original story by | Shelagh Delaney | |
Composition by | John Addison | |
Produced by | Tony Richardson | |
Director of Photography: | Walter Lassally |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1962 -
Best Actor: Murray Melvin
Cannes 1962 -
Best Actress: Rita Tushingham
Entertainment Reviews:
...Rita Tushingham brings freshness and a gawky charm to her role...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
The actors are all exceptional in a film that's as quietly humorous as it is gently moving.
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Creative Loafing
Tony Richardson, who directed this mess, was once quoted as saying, "The British cinema is the worst in the world," and he was in a position to know.
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Chicago Reader
[There are] no weeping martyrs or brave romantic souls. It deals with real people, complete in their human complexity, their dumb choices, their damaging outbursts, their illogical desires, and their emotional honesty.
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CraveOnline
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] valuable document of young womanhood, on a truthful level at a time when only angry young men held sway.
Empire
Squalor, anger, pity, poetry and humor are marvelously compounded in this British screen edition of young Shelagh Delany's international stage hit.
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Maclean's Magazine
The camera can emphasize and select in a way a stage production can't, and this can make something quite different, and also authentically "cinematic." Here, however, Tony Richardson has made the other decision, and successfully.
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Esquire Magazine
Product Description:
Tony Richardson continued in the vein of kitchen-sink realism with this adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's novel of working-class life. Set in England in the early 1960s, A TASTE OF HONEY stars Rita Tushingham as the waifish Jo, a plain 17-year-old girl who is dragged from one shabby bed-sitter to another by Helen (Dora Bryan), her promiscuous, alcoholic termagant of a mother. When Helen and her current lover, Peter (Robert Stephens), take a holiday in Blackpool, Jo goes along and, while walking on the beach, meets Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a black sailor on leave. After they spend the night together Jimmy's ship leaves for points unknown. Helen and Peter have impulsively decided to marry, and they move into his flat, leaving Jo in the cold. She gets a job in a shoe store, where she meets gay and mild-mannered Geoffrey, and the two decide to move into a flat together. Jo soon discovers she's carrying Jimmy's child, news that depresses her. But Geoffrey couldn't be happier, and he begins knitting baby clothes, goes to a clinic for child-care instruction, and even offers to marry Jo. This moving film is exceptionally well acted and directed; it is a tribute to Richardson's boldness in taking on the theme of miscegenation, then a much more controversial issue.
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- Sales Rank: 77,252
- UPC: 715515184717
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