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- If it is perhaps the most perfect film ever made in some ways, its very precision conveys a coldness, a diamond-like hardness; the romanticism of Morocco transformed into cynical introspection and fatalism.
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Film critic Andrew Sarris described The Devil Is a Woman as the "coldest" of Sternberg's films in its uncompromising, yet humorously cynical, appraisal of romantic self-deception. This, despite the film's "sumptuous surface". [24]
Nov 16, 2010 · The film is neither as warm as Morocco nor as accessible as The Blue Angel. If it is perhaps the most perfect film ever made in some ways, its very precision conveys a coldness, a diamond-like hardness; the romanticism of Morocco transformed into cynical introspection and fatalism.
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 ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich went out with a bang in their final film together, The Devil Is a Woman, a surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar (Lionel Atwill) recounts to the young Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero ...
Marlene is Concha Perez, cigarette factory girl, sailing serenely through a comic-opera Spain in a steely, deeply-felt analysis of male masochism. Sternberg adapts the same Pierre Louys novel as ...
The Devil Is a Woman is a perfect culmination to an enigmatic relationship and a breathtaking series of visually stunning films. Based on Pierre Louys's novel, The Woman and the Puppet , the film is a quintessential example of the von Sternberg filmed universe.
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.
