L'amore impossibile di Fisher Willow

A troubled woman with a difficult past, humidity that hangs like condemnation in the air and a drawl as thick as honey, if not always as sweet. That's Tennessee Williams country and it's right where we find Bryce Dallas Howard's Memphis heiress, Fisher Willow, in "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," a prospecting venture into a once rich creative vein.

GORE VIDAL once remarked that if Tennessee Williams had nothing better to do, he would rewrite something he had already published. Almost until the day he died, in February 1983, Williams kept working, and not just on plays. He also turned out poems, novels, short stories, screenplays. The Williams archive is so vast that much of it is still uncataloged, and there are also works that are hiding in [...] Vai alla recensione »

In “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” Bryce Dallas Howard ignites like a firecracker, playing an impulsive, emotionally unstable heiress recklessly defying the hidebound conventions of 1920s Memphis high society. This Southern period piece, the first feature directed by Jodie Markell, exhumes an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay, written in 1957, in which Williams returned to realism following the [...] Vai alla recensione »