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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

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What we think

Though they’re handled with a Hays Code-friendly remove, the film's themes - undiagnosed mental illness, long-term trauma, sexual assault - ensure that Streetcar remains timely, whilst Stanley and Blanche’s verbal and physical brutality towards one another has lost none of its power.
★★★★☆ | Read in full: A Streetcar Named Desire film review Jack Blackwell We Love Cinema

What others think

It has a central performance by Vivien Leigh that takes getting used to, and maybe I still haven’t.
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian

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28 Feb 1952