Suddenly, Last Summer
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / melodrama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Our read · Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive drama · melodrama · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Suddenly, Last Summer
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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