Wild River

Part of the BAMcinématek series That’s Montgomery Clift, Honey!

Mon, Mar 22 at 6:50, 9:15pm

Directed by Elia Kazan
With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

(1960) 110min

Elia Kazan’s hyper-stylized, emotionally charged melodrama pits tradition vs. progress in 1930s Tennessee. Clift is an upstart idealist overseeing the building of a dam who butts heads with an old woman who refuses to sell her property. Meanwhile, he and Lee Remick struggle to keep their passion for one another in check while the raging river—and their lust—swells.