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DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES
U.S., 1962
Directed by Blake Edwards
Starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Approx. 117 min. 4K DCP.
“Jack Lemmon stars as Joe Clay, a glad-handing public-relations executive who’s ashamed of the near-pimping that his corporate clients demand of him. He drowns his misgivings in drink and aggressively coaxes a client’s secretary, Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), to join him in giddy oblivion; they rush into a marriage that lurches along on destructive benders, endangering their young daughter (Debbie Megowan) and threatening to drive them apart.” – The New Yorker
Reviews
“Lemmon gives a dynamic and chilling performance. Scenes of his collapse are brutally realistic and terrifying.”
– Variety
“Their performances are riveting, playing out the agonies and ecstacies of addiction in a downward spiralling vortex that will inevitably lead to tragedy, but never succumbs to sentimentality.”
– Empire
“A heartrending saga of alcoholic dependency.”
– Time Out