Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

After a university faculty party, George and Martha invite younger professor Nick and his wife Honey home for late-night drinks. Games, stories, flirtation, and humiliation turn the living room into an increasingly public contest over the older couple's marriage.

Black-and-white close-ups, shifting group positions, alcohol, doorways, outdoor interruptions, and Haskell Wexler's restless camera prevent the dialogue from settling—Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton make attack and intimacy inseparable.