Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano

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Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Under the Volcano:

Albert Finney
Jacqueline Bisset
Anthony Andrews
Ignacio López Tarso
Katy Jurado
James Villiers

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Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

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Variety - 10/10 by Variety StaffAlthough this voyage into self-destruction won't be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney's towering performance as the tragic Britisher.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe movie belongs to Finney, but mention must be made of Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and Anthony Andrews as his half-brother. Their treatment of the consul is interesting. They understand him well.
The A.V. Club - 9/10 by Nathan RabinIt falls upon Finney to dramatize the inner workings of a man gradually, unmistakably succumbing to oblivion. Finney is up to the task: The pungent poetry of Lowry's prose comes through in his pitch-perfect performance, with its exquisite turns of phrase, boozy bravado, and theatrical panache.
Newsweek - 9/10 by Jack KrollAlthough this voyage into self-destruction won’t be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney’s towering performance as the tragic Britisher, his values irretrievably broken down, drowning himself in alcohol and practically inviting his own death.
Christian Science Monitor - 9/10 by David SterrittA film that is especially impressive for the courage, intelligence and restraint with which it tackles an impossible task...What it can do, and does to such a surprising degree, is to bring the characters to life and offer fleeting glimpses into the heart of Mr. Lowry's tragedy.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Dave KehrHuston simply films the plot of Malcolm Lowry's modern-day gothic novel, turning a fevered interior vision into a cold, distant, exterior one—a documentary on the death of a drunk. As the tortured consul, Albert Finney has moments of technical brilliance, but Huston's direction gives him no inner life. The most impressive artistic contribution is that of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, whose painfully sharp images suggest something of what the novel is about.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatCaptures and conveys the hot music of what some literary critics have called the greatest religious novel of the twentieth century
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzSucceeds in capturing the novel's sense of doom and gets a tour de force performance from Albert Finney.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyJohn Huston's version of Malcolm Lowry's dense, poetic unfilmable book is ambitious but only semi-effective in conveying this cult novel's tone; it's ultimately saved by the towering performance of Albert Finney as the alcoholic self-destructive consul
User Review - 10/10 by Donna ZThis movie is like a lot of movies that really captured me. It could only hit me once, but it hit me powerfully. And then I bought the movie and could not watch it again. That said, I'm a huge Finney fan.

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