Eden Brooks
‘Beautifully, Awfully Funny’: Why Withnail and I Remains the Ultimate Feel-Good Movie
At first glance, Withnail and I doesn’t seem like a conventional feel-good film. It ends with an out-of-work actor performing Hamlet in the pouring rain to a caged wolf, alone after his best friend walks away. The flat they shared is left in ruins, and their future prospects are as grim as the grey London sky. But for those who love Bruce Robinson’s 1987 directorial debut, the sadness and squalor only deepen the joy. It’s a film that finds comfort in chaos—and that’s precisely why it endures.
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