Two Faces in the Crowd, Raging Against the Crab Grass
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
There is a lot of jittery cigarette smoking and sloshed-down booze in “Revolutionary Road,” a waxworks edition of the corrosive, furiously unsentimental novel by Richard Yates about an unhappy marriage. Set in the lonely-crowd milieu of 1955, though published in 1961, the novel tracks the unraveling of Frank and April Wheeler, a handsome young couple who have been trying and failing to keep disappointment at bay by pretending that, despite their suburban address — despite a life calibrated to the commuter rail schedule, their two small children, well-stocked bar and picture window that looks over a front lawn as manicured as a cemetery — they are not like everyone else. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (6115 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 dicembre 2008
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