![]() The psychosexual melodrama is one of Hollywood's most fascinating creations. "Any fulfillment obtained at the expense of normality is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness.It's morally honorable for the square peg to keep scraping about in the round hole rather than to discover and use the unorthodox one that would fit it." Both have been lovingly restored for this release and make this wild, often creepy, and bizarrely captivating motion picture a sumptuous feast for the senses. Warner Archive salutes this titillating production with an enticing two-disc set that includes two different, equally stunning presentations of the film - Huston's preferred gold-tinted version and the wide-release Technicolor version. Director John Huston's adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel focusing on two marriages in crisis at a post-World War II military training camp often goes way over the top, but the substantive issues simmering beneath all the excess makes the film bizarrely fascinating and often hypnotic. A southern gothic melodrama laced with taboo themes and featuring terrific performances from Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, and Brian Keith, Reflections in a Golden Eye pushes boundaries and buttons galore as it explores - among other things - repressed sexual longings, voyeurism, mental illness, and infidelity. ![]()
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