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The Whisperers
An elderly woman with vivid delusions is brought to life by a magnetic Edith Evans, and an achingly beautiful score.
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Director
Bryan Forbes
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With
Edith Evans, Eric Portman, Harry Baird, Nanette Newman
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UK 1967. 106min
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Digital
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Certificate
PG
Bryan Forbes’ film about loneliness, paranoia and poverty, set in a bleakly monochrome Oldham, could hardly have been less ‘summer of love’. Barry’s score is affecting and super-minimal, with dripping taps, crying babies and acres of silence behind it. The cast, including cameos from Leonard Rossiter, Ronald Fraser and Michael Robbins, is almost wholly mean-spirited, although Edith Evans was nominated for an Oscar for her striking performance.
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