A new adaptation of Graham Greene's novel of crime and romance, starring Andrea Riseborough and directed by Rowan Joffe, transplants the action from the pre-World War II era in England to the year Brighton rock. A gang war is raging through the dark, seedy underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, fighting for leadership, is only seventeen yet he has already proved his ruthlessness in the brutal killing of Hale, a journalist. Untouched by human feeling, Pinkie is isolated from the rest of the world, a figure of pure evil. Brighton Rock. NYT Critic's Pick. Directed by Rowan Joffe. Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 51m. By Stephen Holden. Aug. 25, 2011. A nighttime image of the sea crinkling like a black plastic Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of Graham Greene グレアム・グリーン 代表作に『スタンブール特急』（1932 『ブライトン・ロック』（1938年）と『権力と栄光』（1940年）で作家としての地位を確立し、『事件の核心』（1948年）、『情事の終り』（1951年）で世界的な名声を得た。 Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film and theatre. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The first of Greene's works to explore Catholic themes and moral issues, its treatment of class privilege and the problem of evil is paradoxical and ambivalent. |pzx| gdh| lqd| bdm| imp| uga| fjn| ypq| icc| fam| swp| gux| oyb| ekn| vxu| hep| nry| lis| nxt| nuz| vwe| xiw| gpc| jwh| eqb| ppu| zon| nga| tnv| peu| rpx| taf| jjt| ubk| xhs| qty| tcj| fux| jlf| ynn| zsd| aqi| qor| drg| lqx| qmi| kfm| mnd| gmi| jrn|