The films reviewed here represent those I have liked or loved over the years. It is not a list of my favourite films but all the films reviewed here are worth seeing and worth seeking out. I know many of you won't agree with me on a lot of these but hopefully you will grant me, and the films that appear here, our place in the sun. Thanks for reading.
Monday, 12 October 2020
DECEPTION
Delirious camp that reunited the three stars of "Now, Voyager" in a tale of amour fou and cello concertos. Miss Davis is the musician with a penchant for the Appassionata who's been living off rich composer Claude Rains in a penthouse apartment about twice the size of my entire house when she meets and marries former lover Paul Henreid, a struggling cellist, much to the ire of Mr Rains, who behaves just the way a spurned lover might. Henreid does his best to keep up but he was never in the same high-camp class of either Davis or Rains who go at each other with hammer and tongs and finally a pistol in settings that make the Palace of Versailles look like a country cottage. Irving Rapper directed simply by sitting back and leaving them to it. If it's terrible, it's terrible on an epic scale and I loved every daft minute of it.
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