Bigger Than Life
Dir: Nicholas Ray
USA, 1956, 95minmins, DCP
Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
“James Mason is terrifying as a suburban schoolteacher and middle-class father whose authority remains virtually unchallenged even as he turns psychotic at work and towards his family, owing to his abuse of an experimental drug prescribed for a rare medical condition. Young Godard ranked this as one of the ten greatest Hollywood sound films, while critic Jonathan Rosenbaum observed that it is a “”profoundly upsetting exposure of middle-class aspirations because it virtually defines madness… as taking those values seriously.””
In Competition, Venice Film Festival
15.6.2019 (SAT): Seminar with Lau Yam and Kiki Fung
Free Admission. Conducted in Cantonese”
Festival Grand Cinema
Tai Kwun
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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