Alan Rickman trapped in a pot, having the worst affair of his life.
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.
Acting
Rickman, Thomas, Stevenson—three masters, zero eye contact, maximum tension.
Direction
Minghella makes ceramic prison cells feel like emotional torture chambers.
Production
Urn-bound actors in a Beckett fever dream. Utterly unhinged design.
Director
Anthony Minghella
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