The Six-Sided Triangle

The Six-Sided Triangle (1963)

The Six-Sided Triangle is a 1963 short film directed by Christopher Miles, starring his younger sister Sarah Miles, Nicol Williamson, and Bill Meilen. It is about a husband who comes home and finds his wife with her lover - told from the perspectives of six different countries (the US, England, Japan, Sweden, Italy and France). The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Data di uscita
1963-11-27
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Durata
29 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Christopher Miles

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The Six-Sided Triangle is a 1963 British short film written and directed by Christopher Miles and produced with Sara Bennett. It parodies a favourite theme of the cinema - the eternal triangle - and shows how six countries might deal with the moment a husband returns home unexpectedly to find his wife with a lover, with Sarah Miles, Nicol Williamson and Bill Meilen. It was a seminal short film which broke through the Rank/ABPC distribution cartels and was theatrically released by British Lion and world-wide by Lion International, and nominated for an Academy Award.

Production

The idea for The Six-sided Triangle came to Christopher Miles when studying at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris. As it became clear to Miles that when the same script was given to several film students of different nationalities, they all ended up directing very different films, clearly showing the influence of a director's interpretation of a script.

After making a short film 'A Vol d'Oiseau' with other film students in Paris in the holidays, Miles showed it along with the script for "The Six-sided Triangle" to the man in charge of distributing short films, Beresford Seligman, at British Lion in London.

The Boulting Brothers helped Miles form a company by taking over a defunct one in British Lion files - The Archers - once owned by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which became Milesian Film Productions Ltd and later trades under Milesian Lion.

The director's sister Sarah had agreed to play the wife in one of her first films, against the wishes of her then agent Robin Fox as Miles was unproven as a director, but having already made some home movies with her brother years before she decided to sign her brother's contract. Nicol Williamson, who was then with her in a play at the Royal Court Theatre, agreed to play the lover, with Bill Meilen completing cast.

The co-producer's mother, and another friendly investor put up £2,000, but the investor for the rest reneged on his contract two weeks before shooting, leaving a £3,000 short fall which Miles had to fill by putting up his small Paris flat as collateral to the Midland Bank.

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