Wednesday 13 November 2013

Farewell, My Lovely

(1975)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD



Faithful to both plot and style to the original Chandler novel, this is perhaps the finest version of any of his works.

Robert MITCHUM is excellent in the down at heel role of a private detective struggling to make a living – if a little too old – and Charlotte RAMPLING plays the sultry femme fatale with aplomb. Everyone in this film is good, in fact, and Jack O’HALLORAN is brilliant as the brave but not too bright Moose Malloy.

The undercurrent of Institutional Racism is impressive given the unusual acknowledgement of a police White Supremacy that refuses to properly investigate the murder of a Black man by a White.

The movie captures the sleazy style of the period, the geographical location and the underworld it details – an underworld that is no more than an unpleasant mirror image of the “overworld”.


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