'A MARRIED COUPLE' directed by Alan King Showing at the PARIS-PULLMAN LONDON
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It's what I suppose could be described as an experimental piece of film making, or, to use the words of the director, 'an actuality drama'.
It works on the assumption that if you take a camera, lights and sound recording equipment into someone's home for two months and shoot the action you end up with a film.
The result is now showing at the Paris-Pullman, Drayton Gardens.
According to the press handout, the director, Alan King, and his crew spent ten weeks in the home of Billy Edwards, a 42-year-old Canadian advertising executive and Antoinette, 30-year-old wife, their three-year-old son Bogart and their dog Merton.
The couple had been married for six years and the structure of the film is the disintegration of their marriage. This is presumably what is meant by 'actuality'.
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