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Splendour in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass

1961

Elia Kazan

Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie ...

7.8

20,130

Romance. Drama Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically different backgrounds -- one wealthy, the other staunchly puritanical -- they allow class differences to prevent any possible union. Their passions exist purely in their hearts and minds, but the couple never physically or socially express this ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"[It] covers a forbidding chunk of ground with great care, compassion and cinematic flair"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Wood has a beauty and radiance that carry her through a role of violent passions with unsullied purity and strength (...) Her eyes in the final scene bespeak the moral significance and emotional fulfillment of this film."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Hutchinson Radio Times	"The psychology may be simplistic, but the powerful portrayals from the cast - especially from Beatty - make that weakness seem like an irrelevance."	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"A landmark in Hollywood melodrama, standing squarely between elegantly overwrought classical studio style and the fresh, intimate immediacy of French New Wave. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A complicated film that never really successfully yokes together the themes of money-making and sexuality"	NEU

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