The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971 · 116 min · EN · PG · 6.8 (116 votes)
Dir. Joseph Losey · Starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Edward Fox, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton · Music Michel Legrand

In those days, you fell in love with your own class. Or found a Go-Between.

DramaRomance

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.

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A sun-drenched, yet emotionally charged, evocation of a lost summer. It captures the bittersweet ache of burgeoning desire and the painful awakening to adult realities, all set against a picturesque English landscape.

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