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- The film is based on the novel by Emma Donoghue and takes inspiration from the real-life story of Elisabeth Fritzl.
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In a vividly-realised post-apocalyptic London, Mrs Ethel Shroake is crowned Queen, and Lord Fortnum awaits his imminent transformation into a bed sitting room.
A housewife and mother mutates into a wardrobe, and a former Parliament Lord into a low-rent bed-sitting room; their slow transformation allows us to see her drawer appear in the middle of her stomach, and to hear his voice emanate from decaying flowered wall-paper.
The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British black comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring an ensemble cast of British comic actors, and based on the play of the same name. It was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film is an absurdist, post-apocalyptic, satirical black comedy.
The Bed Sitting Room: Directed by Richard Lester. With Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Arthur Lowe. In post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Richard Lester
- 1970-03-26
The Bed-sitting Room is a Fabulation, a Post-Holocaust black comedy set mostly in London after World War Three, where dazed survivors wander about in a state of traumatized denial, at times seeming to pretend that nothing has happened, even when – in line with the film's surreal version of the nature of mutation (see Mutants) – some of them ...
There are two policemen ( Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) who operate out of a wrecked Volkswagen suspended from a hot-air balloon. And there's poor Arthur Lowe, who's obsessed by the fear that he'll turn into a bed-sitting room. Well, we all are.
In a post nuclear apocalypse London, a man turns into a bed sitting room. That the man is played by the great Ralph Richardson is even better. The real stars though are the locations which are some of the most putrid I've ever seen in a film.
