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Betrayal (1983)

Betrayal poster
Directed by
David Hugh Jones
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
16
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married woman has an affair with her husband's best friend. The story unfolds backwards in time, starting with the end of the affair and moving to its beginning.

emotionally reservedchronologically reversedintimatemelancholicunderstatedpainfulrestrainedquietly devastating

What happens

Betrayal is a 1983 British drama film adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1978 play. With a semi-autobiographical screenplay by Pinter, the film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones. It was critically well received. Distributed by 20th Century Fox International Classics in the United States, it was first screened in movie theaters in New York in February 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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