Fahrenheit 451 PG

What if you had no right to read?
Fahrenheit 451
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  • The Novel: A Discussion with Author Ray Bradbury
  • Making of Fahrenheit 451
  • Feature Commentary with Julie Christie
  • Original Title Sequence of Feature
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Rated: PG
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 1, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1966
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 25,717
Rating: 2/5 -- Holy smoke! What a pretentious and pedantic production he has made. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: B- -- Truffaut's movie clearly suffered from a troubled shoot - Truffaut didn't actually know English - so his oddball take on the material succeeds in only fits and bursts. Full Review
Quickflix
Sep 17, 2014
Truffaut brought more cinematic acumen to this minute-long sequence than many filmmakers deploy in an entire feature. Full Review
n+1
Nov 29, 2018
With a serious and even terrifying theme, this excursion into science fiction has been thoughtfully directed by Francois Truffaut and there is adequate evidence of light touches to bring welcome and needed relief to a sombre and scarifying subject. Full Review
Variety
Jun 5, 2007
Truffaut faces Bradbury's abstractions head on, not as science-fiction but as humanistic fairy-tale Full Review
CinePassion
Oct 26, 2009
Ultimately, the film has a powerful emotional impact, but it is achieved the hard way -- through the mind rather than the viscera -- and only in Its own good time. Full Review
LIFE
Aug 30, 2019
As for the actors: Michael Shannon is well-cast here. He’s intimidating when he’s barking orders and does a fine job with his monologues...
RogerEbert.com
May 18, 2018

Description by OLDIES.com:

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important screen innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Julie Christie stars in the challenging dual role of Oskar Werner's pleasure-seeking conformist wife, Linda, and his rebellious, book-collecting mistress, Clarisse.

Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Truffaut's first English language production is an eerie fable where mankind becomes the ultimate evil.

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In a dark futuristic world, literature, reading, and independent thought have been outlawed. The government has gone so far as to employ a special league of firemen to burn all books on sight. But when one otherwise obedient fireman (Oskar Werner) meets an intriguing revolutionary (Julie Christie), she provokes him to question the legitimacy of his actions. Tensions mount when he blatantly transgresses the very laws he's employed to enforce, and his terrified wife becomes an informant. Because the subject of censorship seems to be perpetually contemporary, one can argue that the significant social impact of FAHRENHEIT 451 will forever be current. François Truffaut's film is based on the best-selling novel by Ray Bradbury.

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Fahrenheit Not Quite 451 Movie Lover: from Sunny Isles Beach -- November, 5, 2005

I'm not quite sure just how lacking in emotion the characters in this film were supposed to be, but I think the acting could have been played with much deeper "conviction of character" than Christie and Werner did. But, opinions are kinda like rear ends... everybody has one. The settings are as cold and emotionless as the characters. Even the hard-core party apparatchiks bluster and give orders, but seem to not really care about what they are so fervently supposed to believe in: the suppression of all free thought and total subjugation of the mind to the state. And in the end, when Werner has found his "free-thinkers' utopia", they all, too, seem devoid of any real happiness or satisfaction with their new-found freedom. If that is the way Truffaut meant for the film to come across, he succeeded capably, but, in my humble opinion, not admirably.


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