Being There

[poliphilo]

My fascination with Peter Sellers has a lot to do with him looking like my father.

It's something to do with the forehead. And- harder to pin down- with the way he carries himself.

There are shots in Being There where it's definitely my father up there on screen.

Being There is one of my favourite movies. I watched it again last night. Sellers made a lot of cruddy films- many of them cruddier than they need have been because of his appalling behaviour on and off the set (Blake Edwards reckons he was certifiably insane)- but Being There is immaculate.

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[sovay]

Being There was the first film in which I ever saw Peter Sellers: it was part of a semiotics class I took in high school. I loved.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can watch Sellers in almost anything, because there's always an extra dimension to his performances- even the criminally lazy ones. But Being There certainly shows him at his peak.