Angel Face (Preminger, 1953): ICA Cinema, 4.30pm
This screening is part of the Jacques Rivette season at the ICA. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
This intense Freudian melodrama by Otto Preminger (1953) is one of the
forgotten masterworks of film noir. Jean Simmons, beautifully blank,
plays the ultimate femme fatale, a rich girl who seduces her beefcake
chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) when daddy (Herbert Marshall) resists her
advances. The film is a disturbingly cool, rational investigation of the
terrors of sexuality, much as Preminger’s later masterpiece Bunny Lake Is Missing
is a detached appraisal of childhood horrors. The sets, characters, and
actions are extremely stylized, yet Preminger’s moving camera gives
them a frightening unity and fluidity, tracing a straight, clean line to
a cliff top for one of the most audacious endings in film history.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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