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Film · 1949 · Black comedy
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Directed by Robert Hamer
1949
United Kingdom
★ 6.8 editorial score
Alec Guinness plays eight members of the same family, including one of the women: the blackest comedy the British ever made, narrated in perfect drawing-room manners by a man counting off his relatives.
“Despite its murders and intrigues, its betrayals and blood feuds, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" has a dry and detached air, established by the memoirs of Louis, who maintains a studied distance from the evils he has committed. Wounded by the slights to his mother, he essentially believes the D'Ascoynes are asking for it. The movie is unusually dependent on voice-over narration...which is all the funnier by being so removed from the sensational events taking place.”
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1949Depicts 1900s
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