Review of The Lost Weekend (1945) by Jennifer X — 10 Jan 2009
Surprisingly gritty for a Hays Code 40s movie, but then again it's Billy Wilder. This is the mother ship of addiction movies and it's inconcievable to be making a two hour movie about one man and his bottle without being hit-over-head about it, but Wilder does it.
He does it with fleshed-out characters, hallucinatory dream sequences, a grand old dame, a wonderful bar owner, and a typewriter. I thought the ending was going to be stupid given the necessity of a happy ending but those last words spoken ARE the theme.
This review of The Lost Weekend (1945) was written by Jennifer X on 10 Jan 2009.
The Lost Weekend has generally received very positive reviews.
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