In '99, the British Film Institute voted it the greatest British film of all time.
📽️ If you’re ever in Vienna, do not miss the Third Man tour with @ThirdManMuseum. It's a thrill to visit all the film’s iconic locations. ( )

Film tourné après-guerre (en 1949) par Carol Reed,The Third Man est l'adaptation du roman de Graham Greene (lequel signe par ailleurs le scénario).
Un écrivain alcoolique (Joseph Cotten) débarque à Vienne pour y retrouver un ami qui lui a promis un travail. Mais il arrive le jour même où l'ami en question (interprété par Orson Wells) est enterré.
Les images filmées dans un beau noir et blanc, truffées d'ombres et baignées dans une lumière crépusculaire, sont superbes.
L'univers du film, mystérieux, ténébreux et fantomatique, est celui d'un monde post-Shoah et Hiroshima. Point de salut dans cet enfer terrestre dans lequel les morts et les vivants se confondent. Un cynisme froid a envahi le coeur des hommes. Comme en témoigne cette réplique dans la bouche d'Orson Welles :
"L'Italie des Borgia a connu 30 ans de guerre, de sang, mais en sont sortis Michel-Ange, Léonard de Vinci et la Renaissance. La Suisse a connu la fraternité et 500 ans de démocratie. Et ça a donné quoi ? Le coucou!". ( )

La guerra è da poco finita e lo scrittore canadese Holly Martins si reca a Vienna per incontrare il vecchio amico Harry Lime. Qui viene a sapere che l'uomo è morto. Non fidandosi delle indagini ufficiali, l'uomo inizia le proprie ricerche. (fonte: Wikipedia)

An American in post-war Vienna tries to clear the name of his recently deceased friend.

An all-around damn good movie. Visually, it's as good as it gets.

It's my second time watching the movie, and I've had a complete reversal on my reaction to the music. It had seemed so completely wrong. It is wrong, for the first half of the movie - and by the time it starts to fit, I had already rejected it. But on the second viewing, the effect has changed so much it's like a different score. Watching that first half of the movie knowing that the title character is on his way - knowing the character and how Welles plays him - the score is absolutely perfect. It's hard to imagine the movie with a traditional mystery/crime score. It would still be a great movie that way, but... I don't know. Maybe Welles' performance wouldn't seem so great without that music to prepare you for him.

Concept: B
Story: B
Characters: A
Dialog: A
Pacing: A
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: A
Music: A

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 3.8/4 ( )

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