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Considered New Hollywood's moment of arrival, tipping square critic Bosley Crowther into retirement (The New York Times, they were a-changin').
Like Bonnie and Clyde themselves, the film rides off in all directions and ends up full of holes.
It's by far the least controlled of Penn's films... but the pieces work wonderfully well, propelled by what was then a very original acting style.
This inconsistency of direction is the most obvious fault of Bonnie and Clyde, which has some good ingredients, although they are not meshed together well.
It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
It should readily be apparent that there is something special about the production, with its brash, vivid style, indelible performances by movie icons, and bold mixture of violence and comedy, romance and tragedy.
Goes overboard in its homage to a vicious team of bank robbers and killers.
The playful performances haven't aged, and it still finds all the carefree thrills of being young, dumb, in love with life, and ready for death.
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty deliver pitch perfect performances as Bonnie and Clyde, with characterisations that are layered and engaging. Beatty's bravado is infectious, and Dunaway's abandon is life affirming - if doomed.
Those returning to Bonnie and Clyde with this well-deserved special edition could well be shocked by how, well, shocking it is.
Trendsetting '67 outlaw drama is violent, complex.
...still carries a punch, skillfully combining violence and humor in equal measure. (HD DVD Edition)
If Bonnie and Clyde doesn't seem to carry the heft expected of a film of its standing, the pillowy lips of its two leads make up the difference.
Stylistically, Arthur Penn's crime epic doesn't do anything that hadn't already been seen in any number of runty, skuzzy teen epics, all of which firmly established the paragons of good (i.e. "The Law") as being the new antagonists.
The R-rated Bonnie and Clyde... reverberated through the culture and polarized critics and audiences.
A bona fide landmark in American film, Bonnie and Clyde stands the test of time the same way its protagonists did: by breaking all the rules. [Blu-Ray]
In this 2-disc Edition (40 anniversary), there are many extras from docu about the real criminals to interviews with participants like co-writer Benton who talks about the "ballet of death" to Beatty's wardrobe fittings and actresses considered for Bonnie
In spite of the technological advances of film in the modern age, the blood soaked finale remains one of the most extraordinarily shot closers ever filmed...
Modern crime classic directed by Arthur Penn w/Beatty, Dunaway
Funny and violent, knowing and chilling, this is the template that no lovers-on-the-lam movies has ever bettered.
Proof that the 1960s ended with a bang. For many, the film of the decade.
...whizzes by in a compact 111 minutes, while carrying an image of people and places that is hard to forget.
It's a film that is vividly self-conscious about its own mythologising, a sharp, brash, glamorous and entertaining mixture of comedy, satire, social commentary and off-kilter romance.
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