The Fountainhead
Screening on Film
Directed by King Vidor.
With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey.
US, 1949, 35mm, black & white, 114 min.
With Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey.
US, 1949, 35mm, black & white, 114 min.
This adaptation of the epic novel by Ayn Rand, whose controversial "objectivist" philosophy articulated a neo-Nietzschian vision of free enterprise, relates the compelling story of an aspiring architect (Cooper) who refuses to compromise his purist agenda. Vidor’s stylized interpretation transforms the skyscrapers and interiors of New York into an abstract backdrop for the sexual tensions and ideological conflicts of this highly charged drama.