![]() ![]() Sandy Dennis and George Segal also excel as the younger couple who want to distance themselves from the lead duo’s dysfunction, but can’t help but mirror it. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton fill their nasty, cruel characters with just enough humanity to elicit a sliver of sympathy, and remarkably demonstrate that, despite the abhorrent brokenness of their on-screen marriage, both characters still need it to persist. In his stunning debut, Mike Nichols delivers a brutal evisceration of American marriages -barely hidden under a facade of faux-hospitality and empty small talk, the film’s relationships are filled with unhappiness and punctuated by betrayal, only held together by heartbreaking lies.
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