The Lost Weekend
“The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!”
Drama
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
VIBE
A raw, unflinching descent into the mind of an alcoholic. This film feels like a suffocating, desperate spiral, capturing the gnawing paranoia and crushing weight of addiction with stark, expressionistic visuals.
desperateclaustrophobicbleakanxiousgrittysteadyfilm noirblack and whiteexpressionisticgritty realismaddictionhopelessnessself-destructiondespair
based on novel or bookalcoholbrotherparanoiabartenderaddictionalcoholismflashbackfilm noirsuicidalblack and whitewriteralcoholicbatslow self esteemdishonestyhopelessnessdelirium tremens
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