Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of a self-destructive British Consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney in an Oscar-nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II.Withering from alcoholism Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amid the ‘day of the dead’ festival. Attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset) and set against the ominous background of war breaking out in Europe coupled with the unsettling fiesta we are taken through one da..
