"Come and Go" is one of Beckett's most beautiful works. John Crowley did an excellent job transferring it to the screen. His pacing was wonderful, slow to the point of snail-paced but never sluggish. He brought the camera in for the whispering, then brought it back out when a return of one of the three was imminent. He lit the area precisely: The bench was invisible, and the women walked into darkness, being enveloped as if leisurely entering the void.
Crowley recognized that "Come and Go" exists as a series of pictures (woman in red, woman in violet, woman in yellow), and he showed their bare, unadorned hands before that beautiful last line, "I can feel the rings", but he didn't give us a close-up of the face saying it. Crowley's work here is a lesson that more of the other directors should have followed.
Crowley recognized that "Come and Go" exists as a series of pictures (woman in red, woman in violet, woman in yellow), and he showed their bare, unadorned hands before that beautiful last line, "I can feel the rings", but he didn't give us a close-up of the face saying it. Crowley's work here is a lesson that more of the other directors should have followed.
