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"Strick and Maddow have provided this fantastic film with its own reality." -- Variety
"Performances in the film are excellent. Lee Grant is wonderful as the assistant to the Madame; Peter Falk gives us a powerhouse of a Chief of Police, played with oil, smarm, and charisma." -- dvdtimes.co.uk

(Avg. 3.5)The Balcony (French: Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Since Peter Zadek directed its first production at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957, the play has attracted many of the greatest directors of the 20th century, including Peter Brook, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler, and JoAnne Akalaitis. Set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets, most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. The play's dramatic structure integrates Genet's concern...