Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 254: Mon Sep 16

Mandy (Mackendrick, 1952): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.35pm

This film (which also screens on September 28th) is is part of the Martin Scorsese's Hidden gems of British Cinema season at BFI Southbank. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Alexander Mackendrick was chiefly known for his wry comedies (The Man in the White Suit, Whisky Galore); this 1952 film was one of his rare forays into drama, and it shows him the master of an understated but highly charged style. What seems at first a typical problem drama of the period—a mother’s attempts to secure some kind of education for her deaf daughter—is revealed as only the central image in a more general evocation of the failures of communication in the British family structure. The vivid performances Mackendrick elicits from his players (Phyllis Calvert, Mandy Miller) combine with a subjective camera style to create one of the few emotionally demanding experiences in the British cinema. With Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan; retitled Crash of Silence in the U.S.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

 

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