The Servant

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The Servant is for the most part strong dramatic fare, though the atmosphere and tension is not fully sustained to the end.

Empire by Adam Smith

Certainly difficult to define, this period piece messes with genres, power relationships and your head.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Glaciers might be melting, the polar caps might be crumbling, but not even the passage of half a century has taken the frozen edge off this brilliantly icy film.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is a brilliant, subversive account of class relations and the changing times.

Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

It’s one of the most insightful films ever made about the British class system.

Village Voice by Zachary Wigon

Mixing techniques as surely as it mixes class (graceful dolly shots are placed side by side with the handheld photography), the picture's clever formalist juxtapositions evoke the hysterical confusion of a culture in upheaval.