Wise Blood
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Brad Dourif gives the performance of his career as a proselytizing atheist in Huston’s indelible, hilarious, and deeply challenging adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s debut novel.
“Where you’re going doesn’t matter,” insists the impassioned young hero of Huston’s deepest, thorniest reflection on religious faith. “And where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it.” Brad Dourif gives the performance of his career as Hazel Motes, a recent war veteran who comes to a small Southern town advocating with Pentecostal fervor for the “Church of Christ Without Christ.” Huston fills the fringes of the movie with an indelible cast of American eccentrics, including the great Harry Dean Stanton as a (possibly) blind preacher. Adapted from Flannery O’Connor’s legendary first novel, Wise Blood is a comic, unsettling parable about, in the novelist Francine Prose’s words, “a Christian in spite of himself.”
Title: WISE BLOOD ¥ Pers: DOURIF, BRAD ¥ Year: 1979 ¥ Dir: HUSTON, JOHN ¥ Ref: WIS002AE ¥ Credit: [ ITHACA-ANTHEA/NEW LINE / THE KOBAL COLLECTION ]
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