This Angry Age

This Angry Age (1957)

The Love Story of Our Raging Generation !

20-year-old Joseph and his 16-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However, the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.

Date of release
1957-10-31
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama
Director
René Clément

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Sea Wall
  • Filmed in: Thailand

This Angry Age is a 1957 drama film directed and co-written by René Clément, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, based on Marguerite Duras' 1950 novel The Sea Wall. It stars Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Jo Van Fleet, and Alida Valli.

Production

Clément purchased the film rights to the Duras novel in 1956. The original male lead was supposed to have been James Dean, but he was replaced by Perkins after his death in 1955. Mangano, the wife of producer Dino De Laurentiis, was cast in the female lead. Clément wanted Peter Ustinov to play Albert, but he declined due to a theatrical commitment.

Clément shot the film in wide-screen Technirama and Technicolor. Following the end of French Indochina, Clément could not film in the newly independent Vietnam as nationalist struggles continued there. Thus, Clément and production designer Mario Chiari reconstructed the story's setting in Thailand, with studio interiors shot at Cinecittà in Rome.

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