I think this would be far better suited as originally intended for the stage. I love Bebe Newarth but she's acting to the back of the room and on film that's problematic. I also felt the other performances were stilted and Peck was particularly wooden. It made the other two chewing the scenery stand out MUCH more than you want in a film.
I'm not familiar with the original setting of the play but feel like this would be far better suited to the WW2 era than 2008. I'm not a fan of fraught stories with unlikeable characters that have no real growth. I'm not sure it's intended to come off the way it does. It feels in tone like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe where bystanders are forced to watch a disasterous marriage fall apart in the most uncomfortable way possible. Yet the young man sits blandly by with almost no reaction to the chaos around him. He doesn't seem polite and naive but judging.
It might have benefitted from different actors and a film director rather than a theatrical director.
I'm not familiar with the original setting of the play but feel like this would be far better suited to the WW2 era than 2008. I'm not a fan of fraught stories with unlikeable characters that have no real growth. I'm not sure it's intended to come off the way it does. It feels in tone like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe where bystanders are forced to watch a disasterous marriage fall apart in the most uncomfortable way possible. Yet the young man sits blandly by with almost no reaction to the chaos around him. He doesn't seem polite and naive but judging.
It might have benefitted from different actors and a film director rather than a theatrical director.