The Go-Between

Even in Losey's failures one can sense the possibilities to be explored just by shifting focus to the outer edges, to Joanna Shimkus eagerly watching the Taylor-Burton dance of death in Boom! or even to the inscrutable helicopter pilot hovering over the doomed Figures in a Landscape. In Losey's first film, The Boy with Green Hair, it stood as a distinguishing trait, a cause for rebellion, an affirmation of individuality.