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Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Hollywood's silver age arguably starts here, for the first time you can really see the influence of the French New Wave on a town starting to dance to the creativity of it's own new wave of eager and edgy new talent and blood begining to push at the doors of the old studio's.

Nominated for ten Oscars (picking up two) the film crackles with energy as it follows the ups and downs of titular anti-heroes who presented as real fallible people and not just as the figures of popular myth they became. Beatty gives a charismatic performance as Clyde in a film he pushed and strained to get made (he pulled together a project that nearly never got of the ground) and Faye Dunaway not only looks stunning (influencing the fashion choices of a generation) but also brings out that naivety and free spirit of Bonnie.

If anything it's Goddard's 'A bout de souffle' transposed to America in the depression years but it works tremendously well and those final moments will forever mark your memory.

""Bonnie and Clyde" is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful" - Roger Ebert