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Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

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Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
BluRay-Rip | 104 min | XviD 720x400 | 1257 kb/s | 23.97 fps | ~120 kb/s MP3 | 1.0 GB + 3% recovery record
English | Subtitles: English, Portuguese and Spanish .srt | Genre: Drama

Small-time thief Colin Smith thinks he's outfoxed the law, but he's caught with money stolen from a bakery and sent to do time in Ruxton Towers Reformatory for criminal youth. The prison seeks to reform its charges through a punishment-reward system: rebels are beaten, broken and passed up for release. The Governor is only interested in competitive sports and singles out Colin for his ability to run. This gives Colin a number of privileges, including the right to train for the marathon while running free and unsupervised. But the more Colin broods about injustice -the Governor is keen on winning a track match against some privileged public school boys- the less he wants to contribute to the hypocrisy.

Colin Smith es un joven de clase obrera que vive en un suburbio de Nottingham y que acaba de vivir una experiencia traumática tras la muerte de su padre. Es un adolescente rebelde y falto de afecto que rellena su monotonía y falta de objetivos robando y delinquiendo, lo que le conduce al reformatorio Ruxton Towers, que imparte una educación represiva y punitiva. Allí, su talento para correr destaca notablemente, un talento que hace que se convierta en el favorito del régimen y se gane la enemistad de los alumnos recluidos menos favorecidos. Las cosas se agravan cuando el director hace que Colin participe en la carrera anual contra un importante colegio privado. Durante sus carreras solitarias, los ensueños de su vida anterior a su encarcelamiento permiten al espectador conocer la situación de Colin, así como permiten al propio personaje reflexionar sobre su estado privilegiado como el corredor favorito del Director. Narrada en un sobrio y austero blanco y negro y estructurada a base de flash-backs nos sorprende con un final inesperado, expresión de la ira de los jóvenes descontentos con la sociedad que les rodea.

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)


The French New Wave of the late 1950s was mirrored by the English films now pigeonholed as 'kitchen sink' dramas: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Look Back in Anger. While mainstream English audiences were watching Carry On comedies and re-learning 'How They Won the War', this new strain of filmmaking looked to angry stage plays about alienated young men engaged in daily rebellion against society. The old song about British pluck and spirit didn't work any more.

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)


The rebel attitude in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is nothing new. Film critics compare it to the spirit of youthful rebellion expressed in Jean Vigo's early talkie Zero for Conduct. The torch was later taken up by Lindsay Anderson's surreal If…, a revolution-chic cult film. Nobody seems to realize that young hipsters didn't invent anti-authoritarian attitudes -every kid resents authority at one time or another.

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Tony Richardson - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)


Director Tony Richardson was one of the leaders of this subversive new subgenre seeking the gritty truth below the bright promises of England's future. Coming rather late in the cycle, his The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner states writer Alan Sillitoe's case for social injustice in clear terms, due in no small part to the excellent acting of the newly discovered Tom Courtenay, whose performance earned him the "Most Promising Newcomer" prize at the 1962 British Film Academy awards.

My rip with meGUI from the MGM Blu-Ray DVD

Adaptada para la pantalla por Alan Sillitoe a partir de su propio de libro de cuentos, la película se inscribe plenamente en el movimiento del Free Cinema. Este movimiento surge en Gran Bretaña en los años cincuenta tras la proyección de un conjunto de cortometrajes en el National Film Theatre londinense entre 1956 y 1959 bajo el título unificador de Free Cinema. El Free Cinema parte del descontento derivado de las deficientes condiciones objetivas del cine británico de los años cincuenta, tanto en su dimensión industrial como en la artística, con una especial relevancia en cuanto al papel de la penetración económica del cine norteamericano y su modelo clásico; pero también nace del interés por parte de alguno cineastas, entre los que se encuentra el director de esta película Tony Richardson, de postularse como recambio necesario y capaz de ofrecer una alternativa renovadora.

Script/Guión: Alan Sillitoe (from his short story)
Music/Sonido: John Addison
Cinematography/Fotografía: Walter Lassally
Cast/Reparto: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, Frank Finlay, James Fox, Topsy Jane, Julia Foster, James Bolam