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The Great Gatsby (1974)

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Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis:

Nursing a dream of reuniting with his lost love, Jay Gatsby sets himself up among Long Island high society and secures an introduction at her cousin's house. Their discreet but illicit love is rekindled, and then cut short by a tragic car accident.

Review:

Clayton's remake is well appointed and has good performances, whereby the awfulness of the people is all the more apparent. The sense of a lazy summer is well caught, but the insistence on glossy chocolate box imagery is no help for a film which desperately needs some anchoring in the every day. There is an effective visual motif in the pair of spectacled eyes staring out from a billboard.

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Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis:

Nursing a dream of reuniting with his lost love, Jay Gatsby sets himself up among Long Island high society and secures an introduction at her cousin's house. Their discreet but illicit love is rekindled, and then cut short by a tragic car accident.

Review:

Clayton's remake is well appointed and has good performances, whereby the awfulness of the people is all the more apparent. The sense of a lazy summer is well caught, but the insistence on glossy chocolate box imagery is no help for a film which desperately needs some anchoring in the every day. There is an effective visual motif in the pair of spectacled eyes staring out from a billboard.


Country: US
Technical: col 146m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis:

Nursing a dream of reuniting with his lost love, Jay Gatsby sets himself up among Long Island high society and secures an introduction at her cousin's house. Their discreet but illicit love is rekindled, and then cut short by a tragic car accident.

Review:

Clayton's remake is well appointed and has good performances, whereby the awfulness of the people is all the more apparent. The sense of a lazy summer is well caught, but the insistence on glossy chocolate box imagery is no help for a film which desperately needs some anchoring in the every day. There is an effective visual motif in the pair of spectacled eyes staring out from a billboard.

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