Desire Under the Elms
Americannoun
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She won the Critics' Circle Award in 2012 for most promising newcomer for Desire Under the Elms at the Lyric Hammersmith.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2016
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore.
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The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules.
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But Desire Under the Elms concerns more than an actual fight over land: its harsh primitivism seeks to lay bare a crippling Puritanism, to paint a gaunt New England landscape of the mind and will.
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Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year�The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet.
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