Boom! (1968 film)

Surf is a British feature film ( avant-garde film ), directed by Joseph Losey from the year 1968. The film is an adaptation of the 1963 first performed the play The Milk Train Does not Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams.

Action

The scene is an island in the Mediterranean, the time the present. Flora Goforth is a widowed six times, immensely wealthy middle-aged writer who retires with her service staff every summer on their private island. Since she will die, she dictated her secretary Blackie this summer - vulgar, cursing, drinking liquor, pills einwerfend and begging for injections - their memoirs.

This situation is interrupted by the arrival of the aging poet Chris Flanders, which has the bizarre habit, like a death angel dying rich women pay a visit to them with his presence to pamper and be sure to hold harmless at their bar and their jewels. Flora has a single friend, the " Witch of Capri ", a gossip loving homosexuals, who enlightens about Chris ' motives and she warns him. Flora but tolerates the intruder who repels them equally as attracting, and allowed him to move into one of the guest houses.

While their health expires, Flora gets used more and more in his presence. They expected the death actually impatient, the memoirs are not yet finished writing, and to keep him, they are Chris nothing to eat and provides verbal battles with him. Only when the end is unstoppable, she invites him into her bedroom, where she collapses. As he prepared for the dying, he takes her precious ring itself, which he. According to her, only hinted at in the film, raises death into the sea

Production and reception

For the main roles were initially Simone Signoret and Sean Connery have been provided, but both had canceled and were replaced by Taylor and Burton. The making of the film produced in Technicolor cost an estimated 10 million dollars. The shooting took place in Sardinia and Rome.

The film premiered in the U.S. on May 26, 1968, in the UK in October 1968. He first was titled Boom and later, when he was not well started in the cinema, in Boom! renamed. In the U.S., he played until 1969, a $ 2 million, and thus is considered the first film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who has not recorded his production costs. The press, who knew what to do with the unusual imagery of the film, responded very hostile. He was defended enthusiastically opposed by John Waters, the surf described as the best failed art movie ever ( "the best failed art film ever made " ) and has pointed out, among other things, that the role of Flora " the ultimate drag queen " role been be. In fact, the role in the stage version was repeated with male actors - in the 1990s, with Rupert Everett, for example - occupied.

Also author Tennessee Williams later found that this film of all adaptations of his works was the most successful.

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