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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

dir: Elia Kazan

As in Tennessee Williams' play, the film presents Blanche DuBois, a fading, but nevertheless attractive Southern belle, whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Her poise is an illusion she presents to shield others, and most of all herself, from her reality in an attempt to make herself still attractive to new male suitors. Blanche arrives from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi (changed from Laurel in the play) at the apartment of her sister, Stella Kowalski, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, on Elysian Fields Avenue; the local transportation she takes to arrive there includes a streetcar route named "Desire." The steamy, urban ambiance is a shock to Blanche's nerves. (Wikipedia)

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