The one that really got me
was a rather obscure one- it was a very literal film adaptation of a James Joyce story, namely "The Dead". It was John Huston's last film, and starred his daughter Angelica.

The story is an oddity- a fairly long tale of a Christmas gathering of family in which you get to meet all the members of the family and get a feel for their personalities, but other than the party there's nothing that really happens- until the end, when a smallish event causes the wife of the narrator (Angelica) to start weeping, and she tells her husband why she wept. He then turns to the window to look out at a snowstorm and starts a voice-over soliloquy that takes the entire film and ties it all together so that it suddenly makes sense, then slams you all at once.

As I said, this is a very faithful adaptation of the original story. I highly recommend reading it, if you can't find the film.

In any case, I watched it through, puzzled but patient, until that soliloquy- then burst into tears.

Beautiful.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 13 Oct 2008, 14:45, Reply)