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Although the Yom Kippur pawnshop scene in "The Lost Weekend" was unnerving and stomach-knotting, in my opinion Albert Finney's Consul does real justice to the novel. The timing between the beverages is amazing. For example, the early-morning self-assertion by retelling the German officers story to the disgruntled barkeep, then the ten-minute lapse to his frantic bottle search in the unkempt garden. Towards the film's end he seems in romantic mode. The surrounding story line at times seems almost superficial to this one man's daily existence with booze, and having not seen "Leaving Las Vegas" and unable to comment, "Under The Volcano" ranks as a stellar film about a disturbing subject matter.
score 9/10
shmeedleberg 29 December 2004
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