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The Kiss of Death is a 1977 BBC Play for Today.

The Kiss of Death
Directed by	Mike Leigh
Produced by	David Rose
Starring	David Threlfall as Trevor Clifford Kershaw as Mr Garside John Wheatley as Ronnie Angela Curran as Sandra Kay Adshead as Linda
Music by	Carl Davis
Release date	1977
Running time	80 minutes

Mike Leigh directed 'this whimsical tale about Trevor, (David Threlfall), an unusually bashful mortician's assistant', whose moods and personality really make up the subject of the film. A natural landscape for Leigh's offbeat and bleakly humorous worldview. Leigh has often said the film is one of his favourites, not least because Trevor contains certain autobiographical elements.[1]

Trevor and his friend Ronnie form a foursome with Linda and Sandra. A brake on Trevor's joy in life 'is the factual premonition of everyday death', and the central incident of a cot death affects him profoundly.

Critical responses

The film is highly regarded by the critic Michael Coveney, who wrote in a 1996 study of Leigh's work : "The kissing part of The Kiss of Death is an extraordinary scene. Linda and Trevor are on a sofa, she chewing away, he nervously amused but not exactly apprehensive...The playing of Kay Adshead and David Threlfall indicates every stage of this sexual jousting match with faultless accuracy and perception. We glimpse ... an entire catalogue of human emotions in the mating game: anxiety, cruelty, affection, wonder, contempt and playfulness. This is how love scenes are endured in life, not in the movies, but distilled and refined for this movie."[2]

References

External links

• Kiss of Death at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Kiss of Death (1977 film)

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[ru] Поцелуй смерти (фильм, 1977)

«Поцелуй смерти» (англ. Kiss of Death) — телефильм режиссёра Майка Ли. Премьера ленты состоялась 11 января 1977 году на канале BBC One в рамках серии передач Play for Today.

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