Very good adaptation of Carson McCullers' incredible novella. The highly versatile Vanessa Redgrave is superb, as usual. I did not really know what to expect from Keith Carradine in his role, but was not disappointed. I was very happy to see that the filmmakers stayed very close to Edward Albee's stage adaptation; it was nice to see filmmakers not screw around and ruin something that works just fine in its original form. Fans of Southern literature will enjoy how true this film is to what McCullers' actually wrote, unlike most film adaptations of great literature. And the actors' performances are very strong, not pretentious like so many mediocre actors who know that the content is greater than they are. Redgrave and Carradine are honest and magnificent in their roles, especially as the intensity builds to the culminating fight at the end.
Review of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
