Under the Volcano
Director: John Huston, Danny Huston
Genre: Film adaptation, Period piece, Political drama, Drama
Year: 1984
Country: Mexico, United States of America
Language: English Language, Spanish Language
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Albert Finney, Ignacio López Tarso, Anthony Andrews, James Villiers, Katy Jurado, Carlos Riquelme, Dawson Bray
Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed in Mexico by John Huston written by Guy Gallo with Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews and Katy Jurado heading the cast. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Albert Finney) and Best Music, Original Score (Alex North).
It is based on the semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry.
Remaining faithful to Lowry's work, Huston's film tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic former British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (recognizably Cuernavaca) on the Day of the Dead in 1938.
The film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Reviewing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin had much praise for Finney's performance:
Huston's drama has sometimes been shown in tandem with an earlier documentary film: Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) is a National Film Board of Canada feature-length documentary produced by Donald Brittain and Robert A. Duncan and directed by Brittain and John Kramer. It opens with the inquest into Lowry's "death by misadventure," and then moves back in time to trace the writer's life. Selections
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