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...aesthetic resourcefulness, however, Volcano never offers insights into the novelist's torments. Brittain rattles off Lowry's formative emotional traumas???his strained relationship with his parents, his early brushes with homosexuality, his bizarre first marriage?without ever relating them to the rest of his biography. Certainly Lowry devotees will find these psychological clues reward enough, but others may wonder why they should spend 100 minutes watching a film that never uses its esoteric subject to make a larger point. Volcano is a movie to see ?but only after reading the book...
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