carryonpompei

I don't usually put reviews up on IMDb, and if I did they wouldn't be very good.

But I'm writing this one because there's only two other reviews here, and I think this film deserves more. The other two reviews are very accurate, but they did make me think that the film might be sentimental, or avant garde

It's neither, and it's really good. I would guess that Mike Leigh or John Cassavetes fans would like it.

It didn't make me laugh, but I can see that it perhaps it will the next time I watch it.

Actually I haven't seen the film. I've just finished reading The Man Within, which is complicated and powerful. I wanted to see if it had been filmed. Greene was after all a film fan and screenwriter as well as a hugely successful novelist.

Yes, the flyleaf quotes Browne: "There's another man within me that's angry with me." A lot of Greene's novels were filmed, including The Third Man, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair. I think novelists deserve hugely more credit than they get for successful adaptations.

Yes I know this post is slightly off-point.