Review of Harold and Maude (1971) by Steve H — 26 Dec 2009
Charming, but dated. I watched an hour, on faith, but finally surfed to the end and gave up.
An interesting, off-beat, premise. But the pacing will drive modern audiences cuckoo I think. It takes 45 minutes to "set the scene.".
Harold, a young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth, despairs of making sense of the super-rich, high society life of his mother. Literally despairs. He becomes fascinated with death--his own to begin with, staging numerous mock suicides to pull his mom's chain (she's become hardened to it all).
After several of these--and they are funny--plus not one, but two visits to funerals (and the symbolic destruction of buildings), we do get the idea. Today, maybe 15 minutes of tightly edited work would do the trick.
As is, not worth the wait.
This review of Harold and Maude (1971) was written by Steve H on 26 Dec 2009.
Harold and Maude has generally received very positive reviews.
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