The Table is a 1973 short film directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Hayes, the film's producer.
[1] It stars Derek O'Conor and Kate Williams.
[2] The film also featured the director's son Louis Lyne as a small boy.
The film was broadcast on British television in 1972 as part of Aquarius, and again in 1987.
[4] The "10-minute short, was less noticeable for its subject matter—an argument between a man and a woman at breakfast—than for its striking visuals: Lyne shot the film in extreme close-ups, so 'you never saw the people, just their eyes and mouths and their hands stirring coffee'", recalled The Washington Post in 1993.