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Acting
Finch and Jackson doing entire emotional arcs through eye contact.
Direction
Schlesinger makes dinner parties feel like war zones.
Writing
Penelope Gilliatt's script: no villains, just three people failing to communicate.

Director
John Schlesinger
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