National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
8.3
2014
2 hr 54 min
Drama
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
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- Cast：
- Gillian Anderson , Ben Foster , Vanessa Kirby , Corey Johnson , Clare Burt , Branwell Donaghey , Otto Farrant
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Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
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It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
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It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
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