[PW] Fiction Plotted Backwards

[Nichael Cramer]

Dianne wrote:
>I was late to seeing "Memento," which is a film that starts at the end of
>the story and then works its way backwards to what would normally be the
>beginning. It sparked a vague sort of memory in me.
>
>I know I saw, several years ago, another film with the same structure.  I
>think the story was about two people who fall in love and eventually break
>up (or perhaps one discovers an infidelity in the other). The film starts
>with the break up (or near to it) and then works backwards until you see how
>they came together in the first place. That's my recollection, anyway.  I
>believe it may have been based on a play, but I am lost as to identify an
>author or title. I keep thinking Kevin Kline might have been in the film,
>but I couldn't identify it from a list of his films, so that may be a false
>memory on my part (ironic considering the theme of "Memento.")

Hi Diane

I think perhaps you're thinking of "Betrayal", based on a play by
Harold Pinter and staring Jeremy Irons, Patricia Hodge and a
soon-after-Ghandi Ben Kingsley.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085234/

Nichael
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