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Review: Brighton Rock
“British producer-director team the Boulting Brothers made a masterly, faithful film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel ‘Brighton Rock’ in 1947; apropos of our morbidly redundant times, we now get first-time director Rowan Joffe’s faithless counterpoint. Overstuffed and overblown, Joffe’s version crucially misreads and ineptly revises Greene’s scintillating story about the competing forces of evil and grace in the materialist 20th century world, represented by England’s seedy seaside resort town of Brighton.”
Brighton Rock
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“British producer-director team the Boulting Brothers made a masterly, faithful film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel ‘Brighton Rock’ in 1947; apropos of our morbidly redundant times, we now get first-time director Rowan Joffe’s faithless counterpoint. Overstuffed and overblown, Joffe’s version crucially misreads and ineptly revises Greene’s scintillating story about the competing forces of evil and grace in the materialist 20th century world, represented by England’s seedy seaside resort town of Brighton.”