Evelyn (Babs) Morin
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- From the masterful Max Ophüls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de…) comes There’s No Tomorrow (Sans lendemain), a bittersweet melodrama with a dash of film noir.
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There's No Tomorrow (1939) Evelyne (Edwige Feuillère) works as a dancer in a sleazy nightclub, trying to scrape a living for herself and her young son. When a man she loved years earlier suddenly reappears she decides to pretend, for a few days at least, that her life has been more successful.
Ophüls orchestrates the melodrama beautifully, with gliding camera, layers of vision, flashback and tight close-up being among the tools that came to define his signature style. The lushness of the style possesses a constant fatalistic undertow, Edwige's soulful eyes expressing the intractability of her dilemma.
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From the masterful Max Ophüls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Earrings of Madame de…) comes There’s No Tomorrow (Sans lendemain), a bittersweet melodrama with a dash of film noir.
Sep 24, 2015 · Scandal and secrecy, crime and coercion haunt this operatic melodrama of romantic desperation, from 1939. It stars the breathlessly histrionic Edwige Feuillère as Evelyne, an actor of sorts—a...
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Jul 7, 2023 · Kino Classics has released the Max Ophüls melodrama "There’s No Tomorrow" on Blu-Ray. Get our thoughts inside!
La Cinémathèque française presents: French Melodrama. This wistful yet hold-your-breath tale was the first of two movies for the director with Edwige Feuillère, and, as ever, an Ophüls leading lady has a plum role: Babs, a single mother stuck working as a burlesque dancer.
Anticipating the fusion of melodrama and noir in Ophuls' Hollywood films, There’s No Tomorrow also marks the last of Ophuls’ five films shot by Eugen Schüfftan, whose camera captures a similar melding of expressionism and poetic realism that he achieved in his work on Carné’s Quai des brumes.
