Fugitive Kind
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Movie Reviews of Fugitive Kind
Movie Review: Exceptional performance by Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani
Summary: 5 Stars
An impressive, deeply emotional performance by Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani. A very sorrowful story too. The main evil character is one of the most inhuman one can imagine.
"Several years before One Eyed Jacks, Tennessee Williams had told me he had written a new play, Orpheus Descending, with me in mind to play opposite Anna Magnani. I told him I didn't have any interest in returning to the stage, and Cliff Robertson and Maureen Stapleton played the parts. But when Tennessee Williams and Sidney Lumet invited me to be in the movie The Fugitive Kind, which was based on the play, I was divorcing my first wife and I needed money.(...) I've always thought of Tennessee as one of the greatest american writers, but I didn't think much of this play or the movie."
(MARLON BRANDO, "Songs my mother taught me")
Movie Review: A Golden age lost
Summary: 5 Stars
This Film was another example of Cinema at its peek when so much more was expected from actors other than their good looks of fame. Here we see Brando in one of his early characters as a wandering young man looking for something but not knowing exactly what or where that is. Magani was also a wonderful Actress to complement his character of loss & bewilderment.
It also reflects the southern small town drama which centers around the small elite who cal the shots is such typical settings. Brando like Magani is not suited to to this enclosed setting & there can be only one outcome.
Tradagy & finally death are the sum total of such an explosive combination.
Once more Brando is seen wandering lost And still a sad figure reflecting his real; life in many ways.
Movie Review: Extraordinary
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is absolutely impecable. Throughout the film, Brando and Anna Magnani are superb actors. It a duel. what I find really wonderful is that all the conversations between the two of them, that are intimate, their voices are kept in a mezzo tono.It gives really the atmosphere of complicity and sensuality that is required by the author of the play. The climate of intolerance in a small town in the USA is perfectly depicted, and the counterpoint, Joanne Woodward is remarkable. I recommend this picture as one of the most beautiful, poetic and realistic of the XX Cy. cinema. It just leaves me astonished and very satisfied of having admired a masterpiece.No flaws, no doubts, nothing that should be said is said or whispered.
Eugenia.
Movie Review: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE!
Summary: 5 Stars
JUST WATCHING ANNA MAGNANI IS WORTH EVERY MOMENT. THIS IS ONE OUT OF THREE SHE MADE IN ENGLISH. A GORGEOUS JOANNE WOODWARD. THE ENTIRE CAST IS SUPURB. I WAS FORTUNATE TO SEE VANESSA REDGRAVE ON BROADWAY PLAY ANNA MAGNANI'S ROLE AND YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW SHE WAS NOT ITALIAN. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS NEVER LIKED THE END OF HIS FILMS AND SAID YOU SHOULD LEAVE FOR THE LAST 15 MINUTES.Movie Review: Extremely poignant and captivating!
Summary: 4 Stars
Tennessee Williams was a stunning writer for the theater... The impact of his plays can overwhelm an audience with its superior force...
Written in 1957, "Orpheus Descending" is a reconstruction of Williams' 1940 "Battle of Angels," filmed under Sidney Lumet's direction as "The Fugitive Kind."
Williams subtracted elements of the ancient myth of Orpheus and Euridice to examine the sadistically patriarchal Southern Gothic town and to create a violent plot, involving ruined love, weakness, sex, betrayal, vengeance and lingering hatreds... "Orpheus Descending" shows how social prejudice threatens the lives of identified outsiders...
This classic play is not quite his masterpiece... "A Streetcar Named Desire" is... It lacks some of the regretful charm of "The Glass Menagerie" and the entire impact of "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof." Nevertheless it is a deeply moving work of art...
Williams was known for his compelling dialog and themes that - for their time - often seemed strange or shocking... He vividly suggested the sexual tensions and prevented violence of his tormented character, usually with compassion as well as irony...
The film focuses on a handsome drifter from New Orleans, named Val Xavier, wearing a snake skin jacket - Williams' trademark of a rebel, non-conformist - Val is a "fugitive kind" who comes in off the highway... He is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love, not in Hades precisely, but among the intrigue, chatter, and violence of the hot-tempered town of Two Rivers, Mississippi... He is a wandering guitar player who embarks on an affair with a lonely frustrated unhappy storekeeper's wife Lady Torrance...
Anna Magnani is intelligently sensual and charming as Lady... Joanne Woodward is the hungry grotesque drunken Carol who tries to seduce Val in a cemetery... Both women are so intense, that they force you to become involved with them...
The genuine community provides also interesting watching: Victor Jory, positively magnetic as the brutal oppressive husband Jabe Torrence; the vindictive sheriff R. G. Armstrong; and the soft-hearted Vee (Maureen Stapleton).
Lady Torrence is a study of the immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly admits her sensuality... She catches perfectly contradictory emotions of one who is wary of the stranger but who longs for his healing touch...
With handsome magnetism, Brando is no less compelling... He is quite convincing avoiding all the clichés of the drifting Don Juan... With some kind of lucid intensity, he mixes his character's predatory and uncivil arrogance with flashes of sweet tenderness...
The film (definitely worth seeing) is extremely poignant and captivating... The direction is excellent and the action moves very smoothly, never allowing you to relax...