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The Go-Between United Kingdom, 1971, 116 min At the very end of the 19th century, a boy named Leo (Dominic Guard) arrives at the invitation of his school friend Marcus (Richard Gibson), a member of the aristocratic Maudsley family, to spend the summer holidays at their estate. Unaccustomed to the luxury and customs of high society, his initial discomfort is eased by his friend’s sister Marian (Julie Christie), with whom Leo falls in love. Marian herself is hopelessly in love with a nearby farmer, Ted (Alan Bates), and the boy soon becomes a messenger between them, unaware of the true content of their correspondence. However, when the family announces an engagement between their daughter and Viscount Hugh Trimingham (Edward Fox), Leo becomes entangled in a game whose rules he cannot fully understand, nor escape unharmed. The Go-Between, a melodrama directed by Joseph Losey, is seen through the eyes of a boy drawn into a romantic intrigue ultimately driven by class divisions and the rigidity of late Victorian society, its central theme. It marks Losey’s third collaboration with playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, from which emerged some of his finest works – alongside the grotesque The Servant (1963) and the drama Accident (1967) – all classics of British cinema in which Losey, in his distinctive (here somewhat less formally experimental, even more conventional) style, confronts the ruthlessness of the privileged classes. This elegant period film, set in the late…