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Film · 1945 · Drama
The Lost Weekend
Directed by Billy Wilder
1945
★ 5.8 editorial score
Distillers reportedly offered to buy the negative and destroy it: Wilder filmed four days of a writer's drinking with none of the period's usual comedy, and Best Picture followed.
“Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett have done such a job with their pens and their cameras as puts all recent "horror" films to shame. They have also achieved in the process an illustration of a drunkard's misery that ranks with the best and most disturbing character studies ever put on the screen. "The Lost Weekend" is truly a chef d'oeuvre of motion-picture art.”
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