Under the Volcano
About Under the Volcano
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, ideali…
John Huston's Under the Volcano is a 1984 drama film. Albert Finney appears as Geoffrey Firmin, Jacqueline Bisset as Yvonne Firmin, Anthony Andrews as Hugh Firmin, and Ignacio López Tarso as Dr. Vigil.
It runs 112 minutes and was released in June 1984. Written by Guy Gallo. The story is adapted from a novel.
Shelv files it under mexico, alcoholism, depression, and alcoholic. It streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 108 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.
The Shining, Man on Fire, and The Power of the Dog make useful companions to Under the Volcano.