New York Film Festival 2024: Spotlight - Gala
It was in 1947 when English writer Malcolm Lowry’s acclaimed novel “Under the Volcano” was published. The book is about a British council named Geoffrey Firmin who resides in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, yet lives and breathes on the bottom of a bottle. He is slowly killing himself by drowning in alcohol. A bottle appears, and he becomes smaller in a constantly enlarging world. And on the day of the dead, his drunken ventures…