72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Luise Rainer
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Frank Borzage
USA
80 min.
Joe Benton, a free lance taxi driver, working for himself the same as many other independent taxi drivers, finds himself in serious trouble to keep his job and provoked by those who work for a firm manipulated by gagsters.
Robert B. Sinclair
USA
80 min.
With this film Luise Rainer said goodbye to MGM and practically to the cinema itself and she did so grandly as her work in this film is that of a great actress.Louise Mauban is a frail, delicate, lowels and penniless girl, her only dream is to become an actress. A theme that compils her to work nightshift in a factory to be able to pay for her classes at a Dramatic Art School. She feels out of place among her workmates and she sometimes has to pretend and even to lie.Lies are a way of escape for her, a fantasy, a way to feel like an actress playing an invented life, a dream life. At last she even pretends to have a romance with an aristocrat who really exists.
George Fitzmaurice
USA
89 min.
Two secret agents, a Russian countess and a Polish baron, old enemies, are compelled to work together on a very delicate mission. although they work against each other, they end up admiring each other's tricks. it is a game that eventually leads them to a more dangerous game: that of love.
Sidney Franklin
USA
138 min.
For this film Luise Rainer was awarded the Oscar for the best actress. She also won the Oscar for best photography.Farmer Wang Lung, so poor that he can only aford to marry a slave O-Lan, starts with his wife, a life of struggles against nature, always hostile but always sacred. O-Lan has several childreen whom they can hardly feed. A terrible drought that forces them to eat anything, even soil, puts an end to their resistance, both physical and moral, an they decide to emigrate to the city, but even there, famine spreads. One day O-Lan gets involved in a demosntration and is dragged to the Governor's Palace where she gets beaten by the Police and left abandoned and unconcious. She wakes up all alone in the Palace and finds a bag thanks to such an unusual find the family goes back to their home town but this time as rich farmers.
Julien Duvivier
USA
102 min.
A total fantasy about the life of Johann Strauss II (1825-1899). A fantasy in which every thing, even the most unlikely facts were dealt as being true. A film were even waltzes with newly written words were sung, waltzes that were never meant to show off a soprano's talent. Strange as it seems the film was well liked and yielded good profits. At the time it was the most popular American film in the URSS.
Robert Z. Leonard
USA
108 min.
It is the biography of Florenz Ziegfeld (1867-1932) inventor and innovator of great musicals. With his unique and unmistakable style he completely changed the whole concept of the musical. It was said of him that he "glorified" the amrecan woman. the film with its spectacular shows an accurate picture of Ziegfeld's crazy ideas.Luise Rainer won the Oscar to the best actress for her role as Ziegfeld's first wife.
Richard Thorpe
USA
95 min.
After spending several years completing their education in France, Gilberte Brigard and her sister Louise go back to New Orleans. Louise is looking forward to marrying Georges, someone she has been in love with sice she as a little girl. Georges is a well known lawyer. Louise soon guesses that Georges has become fascinated by the sound made by the silk of Gilberte's dresses (that is why they call her Frou-frou). Georgers marries Gilberte, they have a child and soon the marriage becomes a disaster, their whole house is a mess and Georges with his wife's permission, asks Louise to go and live with them. Gilberte likes the idea but when she relizes that even her own son loves Louise more that he loves her, she decides to escape with André and live somewhere in the North. But Frou-Frou, a very delicated woman, falls ill and they decide to go back to New Orleans.
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