An underrated film, perhaps because it is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time.'
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01/26/06
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:25
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Fahrenheit 451 is an intriguing film that suffuses Truffaut's trademark wit and black humor with the intelligence and morality of Ray Bradbury's novel.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In a dark futuristic world, literature, reading, and independent thought have been outlawed. The government has gone so far as to employ a special league of firemen to burn all books on sight. But... [More]
Starring: Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
Director: François Truffaut
Reviews for Fahrenheit 451
Top CriticTruffaut faces Bradbury's abstractions head on, not as science-fiction but as humanistic fairy-tale
10/26/09
No review available.
04/06/08
On the downside, it doesn't particularly feel like a Truffaut film, but on the upside, it's a decent entry in the sci-fi genre.
01/31/08
This 1966 film often looks good (it was Truffaut's first in color, photographed by Nicolas Roeg), but the ideas, such as they are, get lost in the meandering narrative.
06/05/07
A marvelously courageous personal statement that becomes more fascinating with time.
06/05/07
Top CriticWith a serious and even terrifying theme, this excursion into science fiction has been thoughtfully directed by Francois Truffaut and there is adequate evidence of light touches to bring welcome and needed relief to a sombre and scarifying subject.
06/05/07
Top CriticNo review available.
08/18/05
No review available.
07/02/05
É trágico constatar que a visão de Bradbury vem tornando-se cada vez mais real: a diferença é que, em vez de queimados, os livros vêm sendo simplesmente ignorados.
04/17/05
No review available.
03/14/05
A keen adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel by Truffaut; eerie in its simplicity and matter-of-factness about book burning and Big Brotherism.
01/28/05
No review available.
04/03/04
This is the kind of film that should encourage the perceptive viewer to rush out to the library to read someone like Herman Melville before it's too late.
01/04/04
No review available.
08/23/03
...celebrates the romance of the written word while also reveling in the medium that has replaced reading for many people, the cinema...
07/03/03
Holy smoke! What a pretentious and pedantic production he has made.
05/20/03
Top CriticWhat's actually indicted is the human inclination towards the easy.
05/18/03
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