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Film Description
Academy Award-winning drama about the impact of a handsome, virile and egotistic drifter on the lives of five women in a small Kansas town over Labour Day weekend.
Film Information
| Director | Joshua Logan | ||||
| Starring | Kim Novak, William Holden, Betty Field, Cliff Robertson, Susan Strasberg
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| Genre | Classic Film
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| Country | USA | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 1955 |
Technical Details
| Certificate | U | Length | 108 mins | Label | SPHE | ||
| Cat No | CDR11795 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 2.35 Wide Screen | ||||
| Subtitles | Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Norwegian, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, English, Bulgarian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish . | ||||||
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Review by Julian Upton on 9th June 2006
From the opening, iconic shots of a hunky William Holden parading half-naked around the picket-fenced gardens of a repressed Midwest community, Picnic establishes itself as potentially explosive mix of boiling sexuality and strangulating, small-town social mores. Indeed, the film's introduction of Holden as Hal - a cocky but fading drifter, looking to hook up with rich college buddy Alan and become a 'respectable' 9-to-5 guy - is almost provocative in its homoeroticism. Stripped to the waist, tanned and lean, Hal shines in the sunlight like a bronze statue, upsetting the quiet restraint of the Norman Rockwell milieu with a blatant, masculine sexuality that catches both men and women off-guard.
Hal's brawny charm soon registers on the radars of the film's principal women: young tomboy Millie, shrill spinster Rosemary and, with destructive results, Millie's beauty queen sister Madge (Kim Novak). Tension comes to a head during the leisurely Labor Day picnic, a marathon event that begins with games and ends with booze-fuelled hysterics. Choreographed with visual and narrative virtuosity, the lush widescreen cinematography prettifies yet also underlines the heated passions running just beneath the story.
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