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British Academy Awards; Flaherty Documentary Award Venice Film Festival Critics Award Edinburgh Film Festival Award Mannheim Golduktar Award |
“A forceful display of cinematic pyrotechnics. It is from the photographic and sound track concentration on the Hogarthian faces of Los Angeles that 'The Savage Eye' derives its ferocity.” -- New York Times
“ 67 minutes of great cinema making..." -- Los Angeles Times
“'The Savage Eye' is as ruthlessly brilliant an example of art on film as we have seen in many film-filled years, a prize-winning masterpiece on its own terms." -- Dallas Morning News
“'Savage Eye' Is Brilliant, Pitiless.” -- Philadelphia Inquirer

(Avg. 3.5)The Savage Eye (1959) is a "dramatized documentary" film that superposes a dramatic narration of the life of a divorced woman with documentary camera footage of an unspecified 1950s city. In a 1960 review, A. H. Weiler characterized the film: