Bonnie and Clyde balances itself on a knife-edge of laughter and terror, thanks to vivid title role performances by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and superb support from Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. Director Arthur Penn keeps the film’s sensibilities tough but never cruel. It continually dazzles, especially in the work of cinematographer Burnett Guffey and editor Dede Allen. At one point to have been directed by Godard, this superlative lovers-on-the-lam movie kickstarted the New American cinema.
Paying us a visit this Valentine’s Day?
Our café bar has just the thing to get your romantic evening off to a great start. Why not sample or Smokey Old Fashioned (Woodford Reserve, Maraschino Luxardo, liquid smoke, orange peel, Maraschino Cherry, Angastora Bitters) or Cupid’s Crush (Lime, Vanilla Syrup, Passoa, Chamborg, Havana, egg white) or dig into our decadent melt-in-the-middle chocolate fondant for two? Go on, you know you want to.