Movie Description
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
(2025)Overview
Peter Medak's films toy with notions of cosplay, masquerade, gamesmanship, and how power and permission structures figure into these human diversions. His filmography includes The Ruling Class (1972), The Changeling (1980), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1971), The Krays (1990), and others, all which capitalize on these ideas. Sanity is fragile, ephemeral, and suspended from a very thin tether in all his films. This piece gets to the bottom of why Medak centers his work on such themes, and why they carry biographical weight for him personally.
Featured Crew
- Director : Daniel Kremer
- Writer : Daniel Kremer
- Editor : Daniel Kremer
- Cast : Peter Medak,Daniel Kremer,Peter O'Toole,Glenda Jackson,Alan Bates,Peter Sellers
Cast
Self
Narrator
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Facts
Original TitleLove Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Status Released
Release Information
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2025-06-17
Original Language
Runtime 00h 14m
Genres
- Documentary
