This film, which will be introduced by artist and film scholar Cathy Lomax, is part of the Big Screen Classics strand at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
The Dumas story of a tubercular courtesan is a classic only in its unrelenting morbidity, but George Cukor makes it work, accenting the oozing romantic fatalism with marvelously fresh open-air sequences and lively playing (1936). Garbo, away for once from the stultifying Clarence Brown, gives her most vivid, intimate performance; she's no longer part of the elegant MGM decor but a human being with a life of her own. Cukor gives her the close-ups she deserves: immaculately lit and framed, but loose enough to give her some breathing room, to let her exercise an independent will.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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