Love this movie by George Stevens. Great script and beautiful acting by Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters.
The story is about George Eastman, a young man who starts working for his rich uncle, he falls in love with a working girl but things get complicated when he also falls for a wealthy girl befriended to his uncle.
Clift and Taylor are the stars of this dramatic and thrilling love story, but it’s Shelley Winters who forms the heart…
Beautiful emotional story, very much like a theatre play, about Gene (Gene Hackman), a young man struggling with his relationship with his aging father (Melvyn Douglas).
The film plays out on a small scale, mostly indoors between the family, mother, father, sister and Gene. It’s about the emotional impact that these family relations can have and how you feel and relate towards each other. How much do you do for your parent? How do you express love and do we…
Funny, but not thát funny...
It has some nice moments, but for me the movie missed on pacing and timing. It's a bit of a different style, slapstick mixed with a very dry humor. Reminded me a bit of the Monsieur Hulot movies. It also spoofs a bit french crime movie characters like Le Samouraï.
I enjoyed some gags, the lead actor Pierre Richard has a funny look and slapstick-like mannerisms. But the movie as a whole didn't work for…
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What horrible writing. Really, it's been a long time since i've seen such weirdly motivated and unrealistic storylines. It's strange mix between comedy and drama, where in my opinion the story doesn't do justice at all to the heavy subjects it's dealing with: co-parenting, loss, abandonment, homosexuality, death, love. Everything is packed and jammed into one story and the daughter is going through all of this but she doesn't shred a tear...
The mom is a straight out psychopath; first…
