Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

Directed by

John Huston

Genre

drama film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 139 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A repressed army officer and his restless wife live in a strained marriage on a Georgia military base. Their stagnant lives unravel when a young private becomes fixated on the wife, while another officer harbors his own secret obsessions. The story follows these intersecting tensions toward a violent confrontation.

tensemelancholicslow-burnunsettlingdarkly comicpsychologically intenseclaustrophobicvoyeuristic

What happens

Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 American psychological drama film, directed by John Huston and based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando as unhappily married couple Leonora and Weldon Pendleton on a US Army base in Georgia during the 1940s. Brian Keith, Julie Harris, Robert Forster, and Zorro David were featured in major supporting roles. The film deals with elements of repressed sexuality—both homosexual and heterosexual—as well as mental illness, voyeurism, and murder. Reflections in a Golden Eye was released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on October 13, 1967. The film received mixed reviews, with much publicity going toward the film's aggressively mature themes and content for the era. The film is often cited as an example of the weakening of the Hays Code due to its approval. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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