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Days Of Wine & Roses

When Blake Edwards' powerful film of J.P. Miller's heartrending teleplay Days of Wine and Roses hit movie screens, it won critical raves, box-office success and shone brightly as a career highlight for its two Oscar-nominated stars, Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, playing a couple caught in alcoholism's web. A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker...who never stops socializing. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.

Days of Wine and Roses earned a total five Academy Award nominations and a Best Song Oscar for its haunting Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer title tune. A poignant, harrowing portrait of human lives at their lowest, it also reflects filmmaking at its height.

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Days Of Wine & Roses - Lynndar

It had been a very long time since I watched this movie last. I was able to introduce my spouse to what I consider to be an extremely well acted, poingnant film about a problem that is one we have all had some experience with in one way or another I believe...Everyone one of us has known or knows a family that has been touched by alcoholism and the devastating effects it can have on family functionality.
Jack Lemmon proved he could be a dramatic actor for sure in this movie.
One of my favorites.

Very Well Done Portrayal Of Alcoholism - revsdd

The movie opens with Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) in a bar, soliciting girls to attend a party being thrown on a prince's yacht. Joe isn't happy with his job, effectively - as he himself puts it later in the movie - acting as a pimp for his firm's clients. He drinks because it's a part of his job; he also drinks because he doesn't much care for the job. On the prince's yacht, he meets Kirsten (Lee Remick) - his boss's secretary. She doesn't drink, and the two get off to a shaky start, but eventually they fall in love, and Joe sucks Kirsten into his world of drinking. They seem to be in love, they have a not bad marriage, they have a daughter, but their drinking gets out of control and their lives unravel, to the point at which Kirsten almost kills herself and their daughter when she sets their apartment on fire after passing out while smoking.

It's a different kind of role for Lemmon, who often played in lighter stuff, but he pulled it off magnificently, as did Remick in the role of Kirsten. The scene that haunted me was Joe rolling around on the floor of his father-in-laws' greenhouse sucking on a liquor bottle like a baby would suck on its mother's breast. That was truly unsettling.

The movie starts off a bit slowly, although that's probably deliberate, since the point is how easily (and even innocently) one can get into this mess. The second half of the movie, which introduces Jack Klugman as Jim, becomes a barely disguised commercial for Alcoholics Anonymous. Jim is a recovered alcoholic (almost TOO recovered in fact, and almost TOO good a guy to be believable) who's active in AA, and he rescues Joe from the drunk tank and sets to work at setting him straight. AA is a great organization but the promotion was too overt and it took away from the drama of the movie. The ending of the movie was appropriately ambiguous, offering both hope and despair, as Joe and Kirsten seem to take opposite directions in life. It's truly a "sobering" film.

Lemmon's Greatest Role - FilmJunkie

Jack Lemmon stars in this heart-breaking and revolutionary drama about the affects of alcoholism on a marriage.

I say revolutionary because this was 1963, and this was not something anyone talked about in this era.

Lemmon gives his greatest performance as a man who goes from the top of the world to the depths of despair but cannot give up his addiction.

This film is surprisingly wrenching for the period, and totally worth your time.

Critiques des membres Lire tous...

Days Of Wine & Roses - Lynndar

Very Well Done Portrayal Of Alcoholism - revsdd

Lemmon's Greatest Role - FilmJunkie

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