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Fahrenheit 451

1966

François Truffaut

Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring ...

7.3

20,103

Sci-Fi In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A pretentious and pedantic production"	NEG
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	As a futuristic science-fiction film, the project opens the door to abstractions—visual as well as intellectual—that had been remote from Truffaut’s earlier films (...) the film remains audaciously surprising even now."	POS
United Kingdom	Empire	"The film has a quiet creepiness that remains effective even though its future vision looks almost quaint now with its 1966 sparkliness"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"An underrated film, perhaps because it is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time'."	POS

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