Country: US
Technical: col 111m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Synopsis:
A Mexican consul fights self-loathing with mescal on the Día de los Muertos.
Review:
Finney is brilliant, and there are reminiscences of the director's Night of the Iguana in this portrait of a man drowning, as well as of the near-contemporary The Honorary Consul. Whether it works as a film of an unfilmable novel has to be a question of 'how far'. There is the danger that viewed from outside the tortured mind of the protagonist, the destructive behaviour comes across as unexplained and repellent.
Country: US
Technical: col 111m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews
Synopsis:
A Mexican consul fights self-loathing with mescal on the Día de los Muertos.
Review:
Finney is brilliant, and there are reminiscences of the director's Night of the Iguana in this portrait of a man drowning, as well as of the near-contemporary The Honorary Consul. Whether it works as a film of an unfilmable novel has to be a question of 'how far'. There is the danger that viewed from outside the tortured mind of the protagonist, the destructive behaviour comes across as unexplained and repellent.
