La signora di tutti (1934)
(Everybody's Woman)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 89m
Director: Max Ophüls
Cast: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Synopsis:
A girl is the focus of scandal when her teacher commits suicide for love for her. She nevertheless is courted by an eligible young man, but it is his father who acts the more decisively, and desperately, to have her. Traumatised by her apparent effect on men, she runs away and becomes a film star.
Review:
This extraordinary melodrama uses sound and mise-en-scène in a consistently imaginative way to adumbrate both the predicament and ambivalence of its victim/vamp protagonist, glowingly portrayed by Miranda, a kind of Italian Dietrich, only more beautiful. For such an early sound film, indeed, its mastery of the technology, alongside a refusal to let it stifle the experimental flourishes of a mobile camera, earned it a special prize at the Venice festival.
(Everybody's Woman)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 89m
Director: Max Ophüls
Cast: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Synopsis:
A girl is the focus of scandal when her teacher commits suicide for love for her. She nevertheless is courted by an eligible young man, but it is his father who acts the more decisively, and desperately, to have her. Traumatised by her apparent effect on men, she runs away and becomes a film star.
Review:
This extraordinary melodrama uses sound and mise-en-scène in a consistently imaginative way to adumbrate both the predicament and ambivalence of its victim/vamp protagonist, glowingly portrayed by Miranda, a kind of Italian Dietrich, only more beautiful. For such an early sound film, indeed, its mastery of the technology, alongside a refusal to let it stifle the experimental flourishes of a mobile camera, earned it a special prize at the Venice festival.
(Everybody's Woman)
Country: IT
Technical: bw 89m
Director: Max Ophüls
Cast: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Synopsis:
A girl is the focus of scandal when her teacher commits suicide for love for her. She nevertheless is courted by an eligible young man, but it is his father who acts the more decisively, and desperately, to have her. Traumatised by her apparent effect on men, she runs away and becomes a film star.
Review:
This extraordinary melodrama uses sound and mise-en-scène in a consistently imaginative way to adumbrate both the predicament and ambivalence of its victim/vamp protagonist, glowingly portrayed by Miranda, a kind of Italian Dietrich, only more beautiful. For such an early sound film, indeed, its mastery of the technology, alongside a refusal to let it stifle the experimental flourishes of a mobile camera, earned it a special prize at the Venice festival.