X, Y and Zee

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Movie
German title X, Y and Zee
Original title Zee and Co.
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Brian G. Hutton
script Edna O'Brien , based on her novel
production Elliott Kastner , Joy Kanter , Alan Ladd Jr. for Columbia Pictures and Zee Company
music Stanley Myers
camera Billy Williams
cut Jim Clark
occupation

X, Y and Zee is a British feature film directed by Brian G. Hutton from 1972. The film is an adaptation of Edna O'Brien's 1971 novel Zee & Co. and was formed for Columbia Pictures and the one film only Zee Company produces.

action

The place of action is London , time the present. The marriage of Zee and Robert Blakely is no longer in good shape, although the couple is almost inextricably linked in a love-hate relationship. Robert, a successful architect, is tired of Zee's loud, vulgar kind and is drawn to the quiet Stella. When he starts a relationship with Stella, Zee makes desperate attempts to win him back, but even a suicide attempt does not bring the desired success. When she discovers that there is a lesbian affair in Stella's past, she tries to destroy Robert's romance by going to bed with Stella herself.

Production and reception

Filming for X, Y and Zee began in October 1970 at Shepperton Studios, England . The film was produced in color and 35 mm. Director Hutton was actually an expert on adventure films; In 1968 he had directed the film Agents Die Alone with Taylor's husband Richard Burton .

In the United States, the film was premiered on January 21, 1972 under the title X, Y and Zee and released.

The one by borrowing from Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and fashionable sex ingredients, the film offers Elizabeth Taylor the opportunity to repeat and vary her masterpiece of the time. Nevertheless, the film only offers pseudo-tragic star cinema.

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