Carnival (Wilcox, 1931): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.15pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the 'Projecting the Archive' strand at BFI Southbank and will be introduced by BFI curator Josephine Botting.
BFI introduction:
To mark 25 years since the death of British screen superstar Dorothy
‘Chili’ Bouchier, we present a rare outing of this archive print with
beautiful stencil colour sequences. This Venice-set drama revels in the
lavish spectacle of the carnival, enhanced by stunning sets and costumes
by renowned artist and theatrical designer Doris Zinkeisen. Matheson
Lang plays a celebrated actor convinced of his wife’s infidelity and so
consumed with jealousy that he plots her murder during a performance of
Othello. Bouchier’s affecting performance as a woman trapped in a
stifling marriage saw her labelled the ‘British Garbo’.
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