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Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
While I find it difficult to connect with stories about obsessive love (in fact they make me quite uncomfortable,) this film is hard not to love from a technical aspect—the script, the score which includes beautiful variations of Liszt’s Un Sospiro, the dreamlike quality of it all. The scene in which Stefan’s memories of Lisa finally come back, silently swirling amidst clouds of smoke, is gutting
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Gaslight 1944
Domestic dramas in which the house is a prison and a quietly scheming man is the jailer are infinitely more frightening to me than any horror movie could be. Charles Boyer is the perfect devil, but Ingrid Bergman is everything and more as the tormented angel pushed to the limit. I was simply overwhelmed by her performance, utterly wrenching in her portrayal of a will broken by cruelty, the combination of desperate helplessness and a browbeaten acceptance of reason’s futility. The frantic…
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The Big Sleep 1946
Endlessly entertaining with some of the snappiest dialogue ever. I was honestly intimidated by all of the reviews saying how confusing the story is, and while I definitely would not survive if I had to explain the plot in detail at gunpoint, it doesn’t even matter. Marlowe is Bogart’s most charismatic, and there are so many great scenes between he and Lauren Bacall (all of them, basically)—that’s why you’re here and you know it!!!!
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Waterloo Bridge 1940
I’m a heartless cynic in the sense that I kind of hate we-just-met-let’s-get-married plots (sorry) and so I could not engage myself as much with the central relationship as I did with the relationships between the women of the film. Don’t get me wrong, Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh actually do carve out a convincing and moving love story for themselves, but the suffering of and sympathy for the female characters is of more glaring interest to me. To be…
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