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Summary: THE EMPEROR OF MELODRAMA
Review: With Samuel Fuller and Jacques Tourneur, Douglas Sirk is unfortunately one of the most underrated Hollywood directors of the forties and the fifties. Take the time to admire the illustrated filmography of Sirk presented by Criterion in this DVD and you will be surprised by the great number of masterpieces shot by the german-american director.Nowadays, we are disgusted by the myriads of soap operas produced each year by our televisions and we are accustomed to consider DALLAS and its followers as a necessary drug for the 30-50 years old housewife. However, there has been a time when the Melodrama wasn't despised and was a Hollywood genre of its own. The Emperor of this peculiar genre was, without any contest, Douglas Sirk who, with WRITTEN ON THE WIND and IMITATION OF LIFE, has directed two superb cinematographic pearls one would be foolish to neglect. Observe carefully the colours of the dresses worn by Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Malone, discover the freudian motivations that push the characters of WRITTEN ON THE WIND to their tragic destinies and don't be ashamed to suffer with them. After all, it's only cinema. Great cinema. A DVD zone your library.
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