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Under the Volcano

1984 · 112 min

A slow, boozy descent through one sweltering day, beautiful and suffocating, watching a man dissolve before your eyes.

Directed by: John Huston
Genres: Drama
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews

Tagline: One cannot live without love.
Overview: 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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Directed by: John Huston
Genres: Drama
Starring: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: addiction
grief
betrayal
isolation
death
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	9

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