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Where dreamers can be winners.
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Atlantic City
Cast
Burt Lancaster Susan Sarandon Kate Reid Michel Piccoli Hollis McLaren Robert Joy Al Waxman Robert Goulet Moses Znaimer Angus MacInnes Sean Sullivan Wallace Shawn Harvey Atkin Norma Dell'Agnese Louis Del Grande John McCurry Eleanor Beecroft Cec Linder Sean McCann Vincent Glorioso Adèle Chatfield-Taylor Tony Angelo Sis Clark Gennaro Consalvo Lawrence McGuire Ann Burns Marie Burns Jean Burns Connie Collins Show All…
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Canadian Film Development Corporation Famous Players Limited Selta Films International Cinema Corporation (ICC) Cine-Neighbor Paramount Pictures
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Alternative Titles
Atlantic City, U.S.A, 아틀란틱 시티, Atlantic City, USA, Ατλάντικ Σίτι, אטלנטיק סיטי, Атлантик сити, Атлантик-Сити, 大西洋城, Atlantic Şehri, ატლანტიკ-სიტი, Атлантик-Сіті
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Italy
Venice Film Festival
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03 Sep 1980
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France
21 Nov 1980
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Germany16
29 Jan 1981
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03 Apr 1981
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USAR
04 Aug 2022
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Greece
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29 Aug 2006
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Netherlands12
TV
17 Apr 2003
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Brazil12
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Brazil
17 Apr 2003
- TV12 LPR mj.gov.br
France
03 Sep 1980
- Theatrical
Germany
21 Nov 1980
- Theatrical16
Greece
04 Aug 2022
- Theatrical re-release
Italy
02 Sep 1980
- Premiere Venice Film Festival
Netherlands
29 Jan 1981
- Theatrical12
29 Aug 2006
- Physical12 DVD
USA
03 Apr 1981
- TheatricalR
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Atlantic City, directed by French film director Louis Malle, wonderfully avoids any moral judgements in its portrayal of the emotionally injured characters featured within its narrative. It contains some delightful performances from its cast, which includes Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon, and is a poetic tale with many allegorical connotations and perversities, sensitivities and parodies. It won the Golden Lion at the 37th Venice International Film Festival and was shot in and around the vibrant backdrop of Atlantic City, with the location providing some symbolic metaphors of its own.
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”Buddy, you live too much in the past.”
“Yeah, but those were the days.”Tonight was my second viewing and the easy going vibe is growing on me. It reminds me a lot of Robert Altman. You’ve got Sarandon and Lancaster in Oscar nominated roles with some fantastic dialogue. The story keeps things spinning nicely, so that you’re never quite sure where it’s going, and call me crazy, but I prefer the elder Lancaster compared to his younger self.
There’s also some great moments like seeing Wallace Shawn pop up as a waiter and a woman who doesn’t wear seatbelts because she doesn’t believe in gravity. Oh and there’s also a couple of lemon baths….you heard me correctly: LEMON BATHS.
BONUS POINTS for the scene with Robert Goulet singing in the hospital. Pure gold.
”Yes, it used to be beautiful.
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Ageing small-time mobster Lou Pascal (Burt Lancaster) and aspiring blackjack dealer Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon) become caught up in a plan that could endanger both of them, in Louis Malle’s romantic crime drama co-starring Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli and Robert Joy.
This marked a resurgence in Lancaster’s career, and he gives one of his best performances here, imbuing Lou with a charm that works in parallel with his questionable behaviour, showing a man out of his time looking for one last shot at success. He and Sarandon have a great rapport, and she helps to give the film its emotional centre, her character serving as a great contrast to his.
Malle captures the city on the brink of change, the…
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Gripping fiction. Burt Lancaster in perhaps the greatest old man looks back and regrets his life role, of course, he gets one last chance to do something about that. Lancaster is Lou Pascal, a small time bookie and numbers runner who used to be a gangster; he once shared a prison cell with Bugsy Siegel. As habit, Louis is a voyeur on a bathing beauty Sally (Susan Sarandon, showing breasts and being carnal perfection). For extra money Louis regularly tends to a bitchin’ old hag (Kate Reid) who has him on her beck and call.
Sunk in a slew of cowardly failures, Louis bounces back when he stumbles onto a lucky cocaine deal that returns that feeling of being the…
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I'm not sure that Louis Malle is talked about as often as he should for he has only made a name for himself as one of the most unique cinematic experimenters of his own time: and here's where I pull up a rarely discussed effort of the sort despite a considerable amount of acclaim it has received. Atlantic City, Louis Malle's tribute to the death of the gangster genre, is a film that lives and breathes within the monotony and the life of the city - but such a work even finds itself complicated all the more because of the hands it still isn't an easy one to absorb at that. And yet maybe it's within this false sense of…
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No filmmaker fascinates me quite as much as Louis Malle -- in terms of range in style and storytelling. This French/Canadian production from the French director, shot on location in Atlantic City, reeks of America in all its decay and decadence. It reeks of money, too, and cheapness... And dreams rotting away. But there's always a veneer of optimism. Meanwhile, Malle can't help his European sensibilities seeping out... Read my blurb for BK Mag here.
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As seedy and dripping in neon-soaked artificiality as the title suggests, but director Louis Malle illuminates the shady goings on by imbuing his crime thriller with a tender, glowing touch of warm humanity.
And Old Man Lancaster is just great. I always find a bittersweet charm in watching actors I have a fondness for get old. They’re slower, a little more rough around the edges, and no longer in their physical peak. But this is usually traded in for an extra dose of wisdom and vulnerability; A certain brand of homely believability and movie-goer trust that you can only hope to earn as a veteran actor.
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Me: *rolls my eyes at them having 34-year-old Susan Sarandon fuck 67-year-old Burt Lancaster*
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Stodgy and dull. Or maybe the crumbling casinos represent the characters' lives: no amount of repair or redecoration can fix the broken foundations, the only recourse is to demolish what is there and start over and build something stronger. *yawns*
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