Langrishe, Go Down, the novel byAidan Higgins (1966), was adapted for the screen byHarold Pinter, directed byDavid Jones, filmed forBBC Television in association withRaidió Teilifís Éireann, and first broadcast in September 1978 as a 90-minuteBBC2'sPlay of the Week.[1] On 17 July,2002,Langrishe, Go Down was re-released as a theatrical16mm feature film,[2] after being shown in The Spaces Between the Words: A Tribute to Harold Pinter, by theFilm Society of Lincoln Center, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival of the Lincoln Center Festival 2001, held atLincoln Center for the Performing Arts, inNew York City, from 21 to 31 July 2001.[3]
The setting is a fading Irish mansion in theKilkenny countryside, in the late 1930s, and also includes some locations inDublin.
Three spinster sisters, Imogene (Dench), Helen (Crosbie), and Lily Langrishe (Williamson), lose their equanimity — and in the case of Imogene her virginity — when a mature German student (Jeremy Irons) rents lodging from them while he works on his thesis.
The film was released on DVD in Australia by MRA Entertainment.
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