The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Country: US
Technical: bw 125m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon
Synopsis:
A clergyman is barred from his church for behaviour unbecoming the cloth and is under employment guiding spinsters through Mexico when his chastity and sanity are given new tests of endurance.
Review:
A film about 'spooks', or moments of moral panic and what we do to avoid them, and each of its characters undergoes something of the sort during the night in question. At the film's heart lies the composition of a poem by a dying nonagenarian, which ranks as one of the most moving literary experiences in cinema. It all sounds very uncinematic but is in fact shot in crystalline black and white and directed with a sensitivity few could equal.
Country: US
Technical: bw 125m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon
Synopsis:
A clergyman is barred from his church for behaviour unbecoming the cloth and is under employment guiding spinsters through Mexico when his chastity and sanity are given new tests of endurance.
Review:
A film about 'spooks', or moments of moral panic and what we do to avoid them, and each of its characters undergoes something of the sort during the night in question. At the film's heart lies the composition of a poem by a dying nonagenarian, which ranks as one of the most moving literary experiences in cinema. It all sounds very uncinematic but is in fact shot in crystalline black and white and directed with a sensitivity few could equal.
Country: US
Technical: bw 125m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon
Synopsis:
A clergyman is barred from his church for behaviour unbecoming the cloth and is under employment guiding spinsters through Mexico when his chastity and sanity are given new tests of endurance.
Review:
A film about 'spooks', or moments of moral panic and what we do to avoid them, and each of its characters undergoes something of the sort during the night in question. At the film's heart lies the composition of a poem by a dying nonagenarian, which ranks as one of the most moving literary experiences in cinema. It all sounds very uncinematic but is in fact shot in crystalline black and white and directed with a sensitivity few could equal.