Sweet Smell of Success - James Naremore (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies reveals himself candidly and with

reveals himself candidly and with insight

French & Swedish/English subtitles Starring Vicky Krieps

lyrical masterpiece links the transience of the travelling troupe with the inevitable mortality of life

he finds himself subjected to a dictator's tyranny

the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes

Sweet Smell of Success - James Naremore (BFI Film Classics) Film Studies reveals himself candidly and with'Sweet Smell of Success by James Naremore' (BFI Film Classics Paperback) James Naremore's masterly study of Sweet Smell of Success offers new information about the many revisions of the screenplay, the production company's negotiations with censors and the tense circumstances under which the film was shot and received by the public. He argues that it functioned as the revenge of the Hollywood left against a repressive political and media environment.