Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

Essential Viewing

Ireland/UK

Television Film

Series Title: Beckett on Film (2000-2001)

Director: Atom Egoyan

Writer: Samuel Beckett

Cinematographers: Paul Sarossy

Cast: John Hurt

On his 69th birthday, in preparation for the recording of his annual self-address, the wizened, banana chomping Krapp listens to the tape he recorded on his 39th, and comes to regard it with a mixture of embarrassment, regret, and sentiment, in Egoyan’s strikingly photographed and terribly moving adaptation of Beckett’s play, which features an outstanding performance from a never better Hurt. Iain.Stott