THE MIRACLE WORKER 1962
Directed by Arthur Penn
106 minutes
In English
This is a soul-shaking drama based on a real life story, coming from the memoirs of Helen Keller, who was born with a bout of scarlet fever that left her blind and deaf. A young Patty Duke portrays Keller, the Alabama girl who is feral, violent, unmanageable and impossible to communicate with. She is living in a world of total solitude with no way to communicate with the outside world. Anne Bancroft is Anne Sullivan, a teacher who has come to Alabama to try communicating with Helen Keller somehow. The struggle she goes through is harsh, brutal, utterly hopeless. And yet she persists.
Absolutely wrenching from beginning to end with fierce performances from both of the leads, who battle it out at a level of almost violent poetry. The film is an early effort of director Arthur Penn, who would later in the 60s hit the jackpot with Bonnie and Clyde. Here he walks an emotional tight-wire throughout the flick, capturing the rawest outbursts in austere black and white images. If you want to see how terrible acting is today in movies, you only have to see this riveting flick to understand what has been lost. Absolutely astonishing... it could haunt you for the rest of your life.
Directed by Arthur Penn
106 minutes
In English
This is a soul-shaking drama based on a real life story, coming from the memoirs of Helen Keller, who was born with a bout of scarlet fever that left her blind and deaf. A young Patty Duke portrays Keller, the Alabama girl who is feral, violent, unmanageable and impossible to communicate with. She is living in a world of total solitude with no way to communicate with the outside world. Anne Bancroft is Anne Sullivan, a teacher who has come to Alabama to try communicating with Helen Keller somehow. The struggle she goes through is harsh, brutal, utterly hopeless. And yet she persists.
Absolutely wrenching from beginning to end with fierce performances from both of the leads, who battle it out at a level of almost violent poetry. The film is an early effort of director Arthur Penn, who would later in the 60s hit the jackpot with Bonnie and Clyde. Here he walks an emotional tight-wire throughout the flick, capturing the rawest outbursts in austere black and white images. If you want to see how terrible acting is today in movies, you only have to see this riveting flick to understand what has been lost. Absolutely astonishing... it could haunt you for the rest of your life.
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