72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Boom!

Joseph Losey
UK      110 m.
Synopsis

One of the maddest enterprises undertaken by Losey, the unexpected coming together between his modest style and the excess and narcissism of his collaborators: the playwright Tennessee Williams, the most famous couple of married actors at the time, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and the ironic actor and author Noël Coward. The result is a strange piece of delirious aesthetics, a sad poem of love and death taking place under the deceptive and inclement Mediterranean sun.

Director
Joseph Losey
Screenplay
Tennessee Williams
Production
Moonlake Productions, World Film Service Productions, A John Heyman Production, Universal Pictures
John Heyman, Norman Priggen
Photography
Douglas Slocombe
Edition
Reginald Beck
Music
John Barry
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus, Michael Dunn
Running Time
110 m.
Country
UK
Year
1968
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