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March 26, 2005
Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Blade Edwards:
The lovechild between Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and an AA brochure. Jack Lemmon plays a free-wheeling PR guy who convinces his wife they'd have much more fun if they were both drunks. Hilarity, of course, ensues. It's kinda weird, because the movie begins in amost the exact universe as The Apartment, where the pressures of Jack Lemmon's workplace are driving him ragged, but in a funny way. The Apartment was pretty dark to begin with, but when this makes its turn, it's even more disorienting.
Besides Lemmon's excellent performance, I'm not sure there's much else here. It's very much has a Movie-of-the-week mentality, showing the terrors of affliction and educating kindly about the available remedies with a dead serious "No, I'm really serious" tone.
9/15
Posted by bing at March 26, 2005 12:32 AM