Seconds (1966) (15)
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FROM PAGE TO SCREEN 2023
This Lynchian nightmare of identity is one of the most hypnotic pictures to emerge from the depths of the Hollywood New Wave. Stunningly realised by James Wong Howe’s monochrome cinematography, Rock Hudson’s daring performance as an unhappy middle-aged man who undergoes radical surgery to reinvent his life, is an experience that once seen is impossible to forget.
Isn’t it easier to go forward when you know you can’t go back?
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