One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Country: US
Technical: col 134m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif
Synopsis:
A sociopath doing time for statutory rape is sent to a secure unit at a mental hospital for evaluation and there crosses swords with the rigid and controlling regime of the ward nurse, for whom he represents in turn a Luciferian threat to her power. Ultimately his anarchic flouting of the rules proves more therapeutic to the other inmates, but there is a price.
Review:
Ken Kesey's novel finally made it to the screen and producer Michael Douglas wisely saw the director of The Firemen's Ball and Hair as just the man to do it. His multiple camera placements catch the nuances of performance from the likes of De Vito, Lloyd and Dourif, particularly during the group therapy sessions, and there is a European spontaneity built into framings and shot size that helps make the picture of institutional life seem entirely real. In its theme of society's repressive tendencies and McMurphy's wake-up call of revolt the film fitted perfectly into the Hollywood New Wave, even as it arrived just as the latter was about to break.
Country: US
Technical: col 134m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif
Synopsis:
A sociopath doing time for statutory rape is sent to a secure unit at a mental hospital for evaluation and there crosses swords with the rigid and controlling regime of the ward nurse, for whom he represents in turn a Luciferian threat to her power. Ultimately his anarchic flouting of the rules proves more therapeutic to the other inmates, but there is a price.
Review:
Ken Kesey's novel finally made it to the screen and producer Michael Douglas wisely saw the director of The Firemen's Ball and Hair as just the man to do it. His multiple camera placements catch the nuances of performance from the likes of De Vito, Lloyd and Dourif, particularly during the group therapy sessions, and there is a European spontaneity built into framings and shot size that helps make the picture of institutional life seem entirely real. In its theme of society's repressive tendencies and McMurphy's wake-up call of revolt the film fitted perfectly into the Hollywood New Wave, even as it arrived just as the latter was about to break.
Country: US
Technical: col 134m
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif
Synopsis:
A sociopath doing time for statutory rape is sent to a secure unit at a mental hospital for evaluation and there crosses swords with the rigid and controlling regime of the ward nurse, for whom he represents in turn a Luciferian threat to her power. Ultimately his anarchic flouting of the rules proves more therapeutic to the other inmates, but there is a price.
Review:
Ken Kesey's novel finally made it to the screen and producer Michael Douglas wisely saw the director of The Firemen's Ball and Hair as just the man to do it. His multiple camera placements catch the nuances of performance from the likes of De Vito, Lloyd and Dourif, particularly during the group therapy sessions, and there is a European spontaneity built into framings and shot size that helps make the picture of institutional life seem entirely real. In its theme of society's repressive tendencies and McMurphy's wake-up call of revolt the film fitted perfectly into the Hollywood New Wave, even as it arrived just as the latter was about to break.