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Chinese Checkers

  • February 1965
  • 13mins

  • Romance
  • Directed by

    Stephen Dwoskin,

    Starring

    Beverly Grant,

    Joan Adler,

    His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until finally - as if to underline the ambiguity and interchangeability of their respective roles - the colours are reversed altogether. Still more interesting is the way in which, as the game becomes more ambiguous, Dwoskin adds fresh layers of make-up to his characters' faces, until they become almost caricature masks of their original selves.