Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Directed by

Karel Reisz

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

18

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 160 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young machinist named Arthur lives for the weekend, drinking and partying while having an affair with a married woman. He rebels against the constraints of his working-class life.

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What happens

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay. The plot concerns a young teddy boy machinist, Arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman. The film is one of a series of "kitchen sink drama" films made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of the British New Wave of filmmaking, from directors such as Reisz, Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger, and Tony Richardson, and adapted from the works of writers such as Sillitoe, John Braine, and John Osborne. A common trope in these films is the working-class "angry young man" character (in this case, the character of Arthur), who rebels against the oppressive social and economic systems established by previous generations. In 1999, the British Film Institute named Saturday Night and Sunday Morning the 14th greatest British film of all time on its list of the Top 100 British films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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