The Dead

The final film from John Huston is one of his most exquisite, a perfect cinematic short story adapted from James Joyce and directed with an unforced attention to the nuances of family and friends glancing off one another during a holiday dinner party. Anjelica Huston plays a wistful wife whose regrets are dredged up during the evening. John Huston's direction is pure grace, but the disc quality is disappointing: the colors a tad noisy, the resolution a bit hazy, adequate for a bargain-priced film but not worthy of the beauty of John Huston's swan song. No supplements.