Saturday, September 15, 2012

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Blanche is a penniless woman who leaves her hometown to stay at her married sister's house. They come from a formerly wealthy Southern family. The sister's husband, of an inferior social class and a brute, doesn't like the idea of having Blanche in the house.

A play of very intense pathos which somehow has undertones of a weird comicity. As film adaptations go, I don't think one can do better than this. The performances are simply stupendous, but I do not need to say this at this point in history.

Rating: 62

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