Pink Floyd: The Wall

    Pink Floyd: The Wall
    1982

    Synopsis

    A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

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    Cast

    • Bob GeldofPink
    • Christine HargreavesPink's Mother
    • James LaurensonPink's Father
    • Eleanor DavidPink's Wife
    • Kevin McKeonYoung Pink
    • Bob HoskinsRock and Roll Manager
    • David BinghamLittle Pink
    • Jenny WrightAmerican Groupie
    • Alex McAvoyTeacher
    • Ellis DaleEnglish Doctor

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Those tensions and conflicts produced, I believe, the right film for this material. I don't require that its makers had a good time. I'm reminded of my favorite statement by Francois Truffaut: "I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between."
    • 100

      The Guardian

      Extraordinary.
    • 80

      Variety

      An eye-popping dramatization of an audio storyline. Being a visual translation of a so-called 'concept' album, pic works extremely well in carrying over the somber tone of the LP.
    • 70

      IGN

      The words "overblown" and "pompous" often came to mind. At other times, though, everything comes together-- music, images, and theme-- to really make a stoner go "whooooah."
    • 60

      The New York Times

      His The Wall is a good-looking film, and it has no shortage of nerve. When he puts an entire schoolchildren's choir on a conveyor belt leading into a meat grinder as they sing, ''We don't need no education,'' he is being nothing if not bold. These effects, while some are individually powerful, are dwarfed by the towering selfimportance of The Wall and by its lack of focus.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Thematically the film is banal, and even its simple themes of alienation, loneliness, and paranoia are muddled and sapped of relevancy by the overblown treatment. Geldof is effective in the lead, and the animation sequences by political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe are interesting and well executed, though too long.
    • 40

      Empire

      Overwrought live-action sequences, surreal-to-the-point-of-bewildering animation - The Wall grabs your attention but doesn't know what to say once it's got it.
    • 40

      Time Out

      All in all, it's just another flick to appal.

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