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    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    July 29, 2011

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    Mankiewicz's dynamic adaptation of Tennessee William's shocking one-act study of blind love and perverse desire takes Southern Gothic to a luridly dark extreme. Elizabeth Taylor is spellbinding as a young woman traumatized by her beloved cousin's mysterious death and imprisoned in a madhouse by the eccentric millionaire aunt desperate to keep her son's past a secret. A strange erotic triangle emerges when Montgomery Clift's sensitive young neurologist comes between the beautiful patient and Katherine Hepburn's imperious matriarch. The flashback so important to Mankiewicz's cinema gives way to the delirious climax of Suddenly, Last Summer and one of the most cinematographically inventive moments in his entire oeuvre.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
        Regular HFA screenings are free for all Harvard students with a valid photo ID.
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        Info Phone: 617.495.4700 or 496.3211

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        July 29, 2011

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        7pm

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