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Southern Comfort

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Original title

Southern Comfort

Year

1981

Running time

103 min.

Country

United States

Director

Walter Hill

Screenwriter

Walter Hill, Michael Kane, David Giler

Cast

Music

Ry Cooder

Cinematography

Andrew Laszlo

Producer

Cinema Group, Phoenix Films. Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Genre

Action. War. Thriller | Small Town Life (North-american). 1970s. Survival Film

Synopsis

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

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Critics' reviews

"It never once convinces you that it's anything but pretentious moviemaking"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"The strength of the movie is in its look, in its superb use of its locations, and in Hill's mastery of action sequences that could have been repetitive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Walter Hill has a dazzling competence as an action director (...) Its limitation is that there's nothing underneath the characters' macho masks."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"Stripping these characters to their essences, Hill identifies a shared culture of hatred that unites a range of Americans"

Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
"Arguably writer-director Walter Hill's best film to date, Southern Comfort works both as a pure action film and as an extremely effective allegory of America's involvement in Vietnam."

TV Guide
"A thriller that twists one up in knots, whipping the audience up to a point where they may wish that director Walter Hill would just spring the damn gore already so as to relieve the tension he masterfully coils"

Chuck Bowen: Slant
"Pic is most exciting as a visual experience, as Walter Hill once again proves himself a consummate filmmaker with a great talent for mood, composition and action choreography."

Variety Staff: Variety
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