Marie Antoinette (1938) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch

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  Marie Antoinette (1938) Review: The Good, The Bad & How to Watch  American Film, Drama, History Venice Film Festival, 1938- Winner: Best Actress Academy Awards, 1939- 4 nominations including: Best Actress in a Leading Role When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer poured an astronomical budget into bringing the doomed French queen to the silver screen in nineteen thirty-eight, Hollywood was not merely making a movie; it was constructing an entire vanished world. Directed primarily by W. S. Van Dyke, Marie Antoinette stands today as one of the ultimate monuments to the golden age of American cinema, a sprawling historical epic that blends lavish romance with the looming terror of the French Revolution.  More on Wikipedia or Mubi  Cinematic Splendor and Tragedy in Hollywood's 1938 Marie Antoinette  At the heart of the production is Norma Shearer, reigning royalty of the studio lot and widow of legendary producer Irving Thalberg, who had passionately championed the pr...
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Balarassa (1951)
Spanish Film, Crime, Drama
English title: Reckless

Official Selection

Reckless (Spanish: Balarrasa) is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. An agreeable flick showing a sour social denounce adding the typical message , as it results to be a spiritual film and full of good feeling, touching sacrifice and dramatic relationship among family members. Narrated through a long flashback by the missionary Javier Mendoza/Fernando Fernán Gómez in the middle of a snow storm in Alaska, it is one of the great successes of post-war Spanish cinema for mixing with some skill a war story with a religious one within a serial style that contains a strong moralizing charge. Its success conditions the existence of politically religious cinema written and produced by Vicente Escrivá and directed by Rafael Gil during the first half of the fifties. In the movie stands out a great main and support cast with plenty of familiar faces giving acceptable interpretations

Javier is used to make the best of his military life. When a companion is killed in his place, he makes up his mind and enters religious life. Reencountering his rich and spoiled family will show him that not all the battles were fought during the war. More on Wikipedia or Mubi 

Cannes Film Festival, 1951- Official Selection

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