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The Devil Is a Woman is a 1935 American romance film directed and photographed by Josef von Sternberg, adapted from the 1898 novel La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs. The film was based on a screenplay by John Dos Passos, and stars Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton, and Alison Skipworth.
Nov 16, 2010 · The films starring his “discovery,” Dietrich, are the centerpiece of the director’s career and represent perhaps the highest point achieved in cinema’s early sound era. The Devil Is a Woman is something of a translation of the Sternberg/Dietrich relationship into visual poetry and metaphor.
Jan 5, 2011 · For all of the film’s grotesquerie, braggadoccio, and literateness, Sunset Boulevard’s greatest triumph is its rapaciously cynical, unrelenting wit. Skewering Hollywood in a biting way, Wilder’s fascination with American culture is expressed through cadaverous jokes about death and destitution brought on by the evil, oppressive empire of ...
Marlene is Concha Perez, cigarette factory girl, sailing serenely through a comic-opera Spain in a steely, deeply-felt analysis of male masochism.
The Devil is a Woman subverts the classic Hollywood romance trope. Marlene Dietrich is every bit the femme fatale. A woman of loose morals; luring men to her; then chewing them up and spitting them out while enjoying every minute of it.
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Where The Woman and the Puppet objectifies the hapless Pasquale (Don Mateo in the novel), The Devil is a Woman tropes not Pasquale but Concha, literally demonizing her, while at the same time, of course, granting her an awesome, chthonic power rather than making her a mere manipulator.
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The Devil Is a Woman. The contradictory Concha is all surface and no depth, a beautiful, fickle, unpredictable woman, or at least that is how she is presented as Don Pasqual (Lionel Atwill) tells Antonio (Cesar Romero) about her.
