Woman in a Dressing Gown
Woman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, and Carole Lesley. The film won four awards at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival including "Best Foreign Film". Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
The film also won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film.

The screenplay was written by Ted Willis and the cinematographer was Gilbert Taylor. The producer was Frank Godwin.

The film concerns a man who is having an extramarital affair and considers divorce, and his wife's reaction to the affair. Scenes compare and contrast the relationship with the wife and relationship with the lover. These are not only very different in content, but very different in film style, shots with his lover being in extreme close up and/or unusually framed shots. Shots of the wife are mainly in wide angle, encompassing he chaotic mess of her house.

The film is considered an example of British social realism, and a prototypical version of Kitchen sink realism. Modern criticism has noted that it was more progressive in the field of gender politics than the British New Wave.
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