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This Sporting Life (1963)

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8/11/10 at 3:53am
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What an incredible, heartbreaking film.

Richard Harris is amazing in this. His character of Frank is foolish, arrogant, and violent, but underneath it all he has a heart and every scene he has with Rachel Roberts is fascinating. And the Rugby scenes are so beautifully shot, that the fact that I don’t know shit about the sport didn’t matter at all.

This is the only film of Lindsay Anderson’s that I’ve seen, and from what I’ve read his films delve into surrealism after this, but I really appreciated how raw and straight-forward this film was.
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8/11/10 at 8:40am
Not seen This Sporting Life, but if you think you'd enjoy more Anderson I highly reccomend If....It has a strong element of surrealism, yeah, but it's of a very satirical sort, you still get that politically charged bleakness.
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post #3 of 3
8/11/10 at 2:47pm
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Thanks. I'm definitely going to add that, and the other two Anderson movies starring Malcolm McDowell to my queue.
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