Movies

September, 1984

Director John Huston's rather murky movie based on Malcolm Lowry's stylish, complex novel Under the Volcano (Universal Classics) is distinguished mainly for a magnificent all-stops-out performance by Albert Finney. As The Consul, a drunken ex-diplomat during the final day or so of his fateful journey to self-destruction, Finney finds the quick sting of truth in every cliché. As his former wife, loyal except for one crucial act of infidelity, breath-taking Jacqueline Bisset matches him with a sen...