Directed by Arthur Penn | USA | 111 mins
The ne plus ultra of the "lovers on the run" genre, Bonnie & Clyde barely needs an introduction. Clyde (Warren Beatty) is a small-time crook until he meets Bonnie (Faye Dunaway). Together with Clyde’s brother (Gene Hackman) and his wife (an Oscar-winning performance by Estelle Parsons), they become the most infamous bank robbers of the Depression era. They also become immediate folk heroes for an increasingly disenfranchised American society eager to rob a system that no longer serves them.
A prime example of New Hollywood, where new cinematic visions influenced by European cinema exploded into the American consciousness, Bonnie & Clyde the movie is as iconic as the real-life couple themselves. With its atmospheric depictions of a United States down on its luck, an then-unheard-of use of explicit violence, and dynamite breakout performances by all its actors, Bonnie & Clyde portrays the American Dream as a life of charismatic criminality.
Written by Scott Lang.
Part of our Lovers on the Run Series.
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