Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 55: Sun Feb 24

All I Desire (Sirk, 1953): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 7.55pm


This film, part of the Barbara Stanwyck season at BFI Southbank, is also being screened at the cinema on February 27th. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
A failed actress and mother of three (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the husband (Richard Carlson) and family she deserted years before in this superior 1953 drama by Douglas Sirk, a very personal reworking of a standard soap-opera plot. True to form, Sirk transforms the material through a careful and ironic subversion of the conventions; what emerges is a biting assessment of the value of survival in the face of small-town meanness and prejudice, a neat use of a very bourgeois format to satirize its audience.
Dave Kehr

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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