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Under the Volcano (1984)

Drama | 112 minutes
3,62 130 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States / Mexico

Directed by: John Huston

Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews

IMDb score: 6,8 (6.576)

Releasedate: 12 June 1984

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Under the Volcano plot

"One cannot live without love."

Against the background of the outbreak of war in Europe and the Mexican Feast of 'The Day of the Dead', we witness a day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, the British consul living in an alcoholic intoxication of self-destruction. His ex-wife Yvonne returns with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

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avatar van Leland Palmer

Leland Palmer

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Great film by Huston, full of brilliant quotes. Albert Finney plays the role of his life as a heavy alcoholic in search of the deepest bottomless pit in Mexico. Fantastic sultry and depressing atmosphere, lots of (black) humor - combined with excellent drama in a compelling and towards the end totally derailing trip. I had to get into it the first 15 / 20 minutes, but what a great one.

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Woland

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The book once made quite an impression, although it was not light reading, and the film adaptation also turns out to be a solid piece of work. In Under The Volcano we follow the British ex-consul Geoffrey Firmin, a man who is at the end of his tether. In Cuernavaca, Mexico he drinks himself to death, a disillusioned man who has actually given up all hope. Around the (now) well-known celebration of the Day of the Dead we follow him, while his temporarily returned ex-wife Yvonne and his half-brother Hugh try to get Geoffrey back on track. And they fail miserably; the book is a pitch-black product of its time in which not only Geoffrey's own alcoholism, but also the dark political state of the world lead to an inevitable decline. Albert Finney as a doomed and incorrigible alcoholic, with nevertheless regularly quite lucid moments, plays very strongly; the rest of the cast does a great job too. The images of Mexico complete it; regularly beautiful, exotic, but also with an underlying threat, and certainly in the second half we see a dark side of Mexico with an unparalleled filthy brothel with dubious, fascist locals who ultimately doom Geoffrey. In terms of atmosphere, it is rock solid: dark, dirty, exotic, oppressive, with hopeful leads that turn out to be in vain and make the spiral into the abyss hit even harder. Fascinating.

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scorsese

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Good film about a British diplomat in Mexico who gets a visit from his ex-wife after a year. The film is largely made by the strong role of Albert Finney as an alcoholic. Beautiful location work in Mexico where the story takes place during the Day of the Dead. Sometimes a bit monotonous, but enough good scenes.

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