The last day in the life of an alcoholic British diplomat as he wanders around a Mexican town during the Day Of The Dead festival. From that short description you can gather this will not be a feel good type of film. Albert Finney is the diplomat Geoffrey Firmin. Finney plays Firmin as a completely wasted drunk stumbling from one bar to another while guzzling anything with alcohol in it.
Into the mix arrives Jacqueline Bisset as his estranged wife Yvonne Firmin and Anthony Andrews as his half brother Hugh Firmin to join in all of this fun as the film marches to its inevitable conclusion.
The director is the legendary John Huston in the later part of his career. Huston would work on crap like Annie and Victory and then manage to pull together more interesting projects like this. However this time I don't think that Huston was able to fine the right tone for this project. The audience never understood why anyone should care about Albert Finney's character. Frankly a film about a drunk wandering around drunk isn't exactly compelling viewing.
Guy Gallo wrote the screenplay under Huston's supervision, the film runs 112 minutes.
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