Everyone was singing songs and she thought they were all pretending they were happy and surviving. After leaving his house she went to the pub where Denny and her mother and some others were, even after deciding she’d never go there again. She does not even fit in with her own people anymore. Sadly, Rita says she is okay in this room with him but out in the world she is a freak. He only wanted her there to amuse them, she claims.įrank becomes angry and says if she really feels that way she should leave. Frank says he wanted her to be herself, and Rita replies that she does not want to be herself, as she is stupid and thinks one day she can be like the rest of them. Annoyed, Rita says she does not want to be funny but to talk seriously with everyone and not play the court jester. She counters by asking if he dresses up and brings nice wine to dinner parties and he admits he does.įrank tells her everyone there would have been happy with who she is - ”someone who’s funny, delightful, charming…” (49). Frank smiles and says she did not buy the wrong wine and did not need to dress up or bring wine at all. She spent all day picking out clothes because none of hers seemed to work, then took the wrong bus and was late to his house, and then realized she’d bought the wrong wine. Even when she tried to explain he did not care, so she decided to go on her own. Rita protests that she did apologize, and says Denny did not want to go and they had a huge fight. Which shared Educating Rita's understated feminism.Frank tells Rita that Julia does not like when she has a party planned for eight and only six people come it does not bother him, but it did bother Julia. Russell's still more celebrated later collaboration, Shirley Valentine (1989), Won the film a wide audience on its release, paving the way for Gilbert and ![]() The warmth of her performance and Russell's positive message of self-discovery Tries on an assortment of over-the-top outfits (and accompanying identities) forįrank's dinner party reminds us of Walters' long partnership with Victoria Wood. Showcases her considerable skills as a comedienne. Walters cuts a strong and sympathetic figure as Rita, and the film The scene is givenĪ more upbeat light counterpoint when Rita burns one of her own essays inįrank's study, insisting she must do better. This poignant theme recurs when DennyĬruelly tosses Rita's copy of Chekhov's plays onto a bonfire. Scenes in the university with comic effect, while a melancholic synth themeĪccompanies the dinner party episode. A florid piece of classical music punctuates her Rita's uncomfortable relationship with her surroundings is further underlined Looking in through the glass doors, feels similarly isolated and Subsequently, she retreats to her local pub but, In the first, Rita arrives for aĭinner party at Frank's house but flees after peeking at the other guests Highlighted in a pair of mirrored scenes. Working-class background and the world of academia. However, Rita considers herself a 'half-caste', adrift from both her Spaces of the university campus which, she says, give her "room to breathe". Husband symbolically takes a hammer to one of the walls) with the leafy, open Outfits Michael Caine, who bulked out and grew unkempt curls to play Frank, isĭressed throughout in drab, faded shades.ĭirector Lewis Gilbert also contrasts Rita's claustrophobic home (where her Peroxide-blonde hairdo with pink highlights and wears an array of bright Young hairdresser with that of her middle-aged tutor. This isĪ comedy of contrasts, immediately juxtaposing the appearance of the sparky Willy Russell's script, from his own stage play (also starring Julie Walters),Ĭombines hard-edged social realism with a lightly-worn, spirited humour. Of the wit and grit of the British New Wave dramas of two decades earlier. Though its most obvious debt is to Shaw's Pygmalion, Educating Rita has much Enrolling on an Open University literature course, she is taken under the reluctant wing of a semi-alcoholic English professor, Frank. Rita is a young working-class woman with a burning desire forĮducation.
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