Gracias y Salut

John Huston adapta con acierto una obra del dramaturgo Tennessee Williams centrando impetuosamente la narración en el estudio psicológico de unos personajes llenos de miedos, fantasmas y excentricidades, protagonistas fracasados y perdidos que moran en una atmósfera empapada de sexualidad.
El reverendo T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton), desequilibrado y descreído, ha sido expulsado del sacerdocio y tras pasar unos meses en un manicomio ha encontrado trabajo como guía turístico en México. En uno de sus periplos viajeros, una sensual joven llamada Charlotte (Sue Lyon) intentará seducirle.
Una bella viuda amante del alcohol y del sexo, propietaria de un retirado hotel al borde de la playa; una virginal pintora que vaga por el mundo junto a su abuelo poeta; una blonda núbil deseosa de nuevas experiencias sexuales y una institutriz de tendencias lesbianas forman el entramado mujeril que se agita en torno a un dipsómano ex sacerdote, el cual busca el significado moral de su existencia y la expresión de un dios personal.
El film, además de estar muy bien realizado, resulta todo un regalo para la capacidad interpretativa de sus intérpretes y el sentido de desarraigo y arrebato del asunto manejado se encuentran suficientemente atrapados por Huston.
La espléndida fotografía en blanco y negro es del mejicano Gabriel Figueroa, quien sería justamente nominado al Oscar por este trabajo (El Criticón).
AMG Synopsis: Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American schoolteachers, and he guides their bus to a rundown hotel owned by flamboyant widow Maxine Faulk (Ava Gardner). Attempting to dally with Charlotte Goodall (Sue Lyon), one of the schoolteachers, Shannon is caught in the act by the group's "den mother" Judith Fellowes (Grayson Hall), who threatens to have him fired.While he and Maxine connive to keep Judith from calling his superiors, artist Hanna Jelkes (Deborah Kerr) arrives at the hotel with her ailing, elderly poet grandfather (Cyril Delevanti, in a part reportedly offered to poet Carl Sandburg). The midsection of the film charts the vacillating sexual tensions among the besotted Shannon, the earthy Maxine, and the repressed Hanna. The perversions and demons plaguing the principal characters, merely hinted at in the original stage production ofby Tennessee Williams, are expanded by Huston, who co-adapted the screenplay with Anthony Veiller. The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Dorothy Jeakins.
AMG Review: Tennessee Williams' morality play is well adapted to the screen in writer-director John Huston's 1964 film version. Typically of a Williams effort, there's more than enough intense melodrama and sexuality to go around. This was one of the final films in the spate of screen adaptations of his work, which began with 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire. Changing sexual mores and an increase in sexual frankness may have made Williams' once-scandalous themes seem downright old-fashioned, but Huston's film has survived the test of time better than some others. In the hands of a lesser director, the movie might have become an aberrant sexual farce. All of the actors play their roles straight, and the film mostly benefits from their performances. The sultry Ava Gardner comes across well, though her career would slide into oblivion as the 1960s progressed. As the drunk and defrocked priest lusted after by three very different women, Richard Burton tends to go over-the-top. There was reportedly a great deal of tension on the set among the leads, who were stuck on location in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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