Review of Drunken Angel (1948) by Clifford H — 22 Dec 2007
A friend of mine once said, there are two kinds of directors--the first of the idiom, like Kurosawa, the second is like Godard, the grammarian. But already this is wrong. The experiments that Godard busies over in a film like Made in USA as an experimental film of cinemascope sound had already found that same type of experimentation in Drunken Angel.
A guitarist plays a lonely theme, he directs the emotion and adds the punctuations to this film, but who adds the comma that interrupts a series of declarations. It is the gangster who picks up the guitar and strums out his own theme, announces himself.
Kurosawa demonstrates the adjustment of wordplay is already in itself an experiment with grammar.
This review of Drunken Angel (1948) was written by Clifford H on 22 Dec 2007.
Drunken Angel has generally received very positive reviews.
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