Although this voyage into self-destruction won't be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney's towering performance as the tragic Britisher.
Under the Volcano (1984)
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Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: John Huston's screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowery's powerful meditation on self-destruction and personal despair. The hero is Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic ex-British consul living in Mexico on the... John Huston's screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowery's powerful meditation on self-destruction and personal despair. The hero is Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic ex-British consul living in Mexico on the eve of World War II. Tormented by his wife's infidelity, Firmin celebrates the Day of the Dead by drinking himself to death despite his wife and her lover's efforts to save him. [More]
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado
Director: John Huston
Director: John Huston
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The movie belongs to Finney, but mention must be made of Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and Anthony Andrews as his half-brother.
Daring as it is to have brought Under the Volcano to the screen in this faithful but incomplete form, Mr. Huston has done so without making compromises in the process.
As the tortured consul, Albert Finney has moments of technical brilliance, but Huston's direction gives him no inner life.
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