February 15, 2004

Sight & Sound review of Young Adam

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Found this great review of Young Adam from the very high­brow Bri­tish film maga­zine, Sight And Sound.
War­ning: They also print the synop­sis, which is basi­cally one big spoi­ler. Skip that if you don’t want to know the ending (and the middle, and the begi­ning etc). Below the synop­sis is the actual review by Phi­lip Kemp, which I’ve also pos­ted below.


“Por­tra­ying an emo­tio­nally ampu­ta­ted pro­ta­go­nist without either soli­ci­ting sym­pathy or alie­na­ting your audience is no mean trick. It defea­ted Vis­conti in his over-literal adap­ta­tion of Camus’ L’

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