Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.
Acting
Caine and Law devour Harold Pinter's vicious dialogue.
Production
Branagh's sterile tech-mansion is a character itself.
Writing
Pinter's remake script twists the 1972 original into something colder.
Director
Kenneth Branagh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Caine played Milo in the 1972 original—here he's Andrew, making this a delicious generational handoff.
Branagh relocated the action to a surveillance-heavy modernist mansion, turning Pinter's class satire into commentary on 2000s tech paranoia and masculine control.
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