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Probably as good a film as you're going to get of a piece that should have stayed on stage

A &quot;four scene&quot; story of a woman walking 9 paces one way and then 9 paces back in front of the door of her mother who is an invalid. We never see her mother but hear their interior monologues and the conversation between them.<br/><br/>This belongs on stage and not on screen since despite a great central performance the play is too formal and rigid to work as a film. Its Beckett looking at aging, roads not taken (the daughter is middle aged and never been out) and other things. I don&#39;t see much that hasn&#39;t been done before. certainly other than a chance at a great performance (which this film has) I don&#39;t think its much of anything. The problem is that in order to stay true to Beckett&#39;s direction the filmmakers were too limited as to what they could do and the result is a theater-piece on film.

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Probably as good a film as you're going to get of a piece that should have stayed on stage

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