Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

United States

1966

131 Min

Black and White

1.85:1

Latin, English

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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SCR Edward Albee, Ernest Lehman

CAST Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

Psychological realism and foul language: George and Martha are as far from the bourgeois 1950s perfect married couple as you can get, alternatively badgering, berating, abusing and loving each other, both alone and accompanied by the naive young married couple that have come over for a nightcap. The fun and games in which George and Martha involve Nick and Honey are a lacerating look at the older couple’s existence, where the emotional brutalizing fill an unspeakable void at their center, and a troubling preview of what the younger couple’s life could become. Combines the banal, the vulgar and the poetic. —IMDb

Director

Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (born Nov. 6, 1931, Berlin, Ger.) American motion-picture and stage director whose productions focus on the absurdities and horrors of modern life as revealed in personal relationships.

Nichols immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of seven. He attended the University of Chicago (1950–53), studied acting under Lee Strasberg in New York City, and then returned to Chicago, where, with Elaine May, Shelley Berman, Barbara Harris, and Paul Sills, he formed the comic improvisational group The Compass Players. Nichols and May then traveled nationwide with their social-satire routines, and from 1960 to 1961 they performed on Broadway in An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

Nichols made his Broadway directorial debut with the highly praised Barefoot in the Park (1963) and went on to direct a series of commercially and critically successful Broadway plays, many written by Neil Simon. He won Tony awards for Barefoot in the Park, Luv (1964… read more

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Ricardo Branco

14May13

Elizabeth Taylor dá uma lição a todos os actores neste filme aqui. A história é uma preciosidade e o ambiente assustador é envolvente. Uma mulher sem ancas e uma anedota que tem muito que se lhe diga.

Duncan Gray

26Apr13

The direction and editing are a masterclass in how to make a play cinematic—even if it also proves that a play transcribed to screen always feels stagy no matter what. Admittedly, at the start, I didn't know how I was going to tolerate a movie this shrill, whose shock tactics are no longer as valuable a statement. But as it quiets down, it gathers steam. Dated, yes, but still with a tragic power. 4 out of 5 stars.