Sweet Bird of Youth

Year: 1989

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: English

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Drama

A passionate romance and masterful Tennessee Williams melodrama that follows an aging film star horrified by how the screen portrays her. She abandons her own premiere, retreats into seclusion, and while hidden in a hotel becomes entangled with a young masseur who also works as the resident gigolo, confronting desire and identity.

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