Madame X (Lowell Rich, 1966): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.40pm
This film, which also screens on November 23rd (introduced by season curator Ruby McGuigan) is part of the Melodrama season at BFI Southbank.
BFI introduction:
Alexandre Bisson’s 1908 play, with its tragic anti-heroine and tale of
moral decline, has been revived and transformed across the decades.
Holly is a working-class girl who marries into wealth, only to find her
new surroundings isolated and suffocating. Her relationship with a local
hedonist prompts a downward spiral, with Holly quickly ejected by those
who never truly accepted her. For Lana Turner, it is the role she was
born to play. As the bored housewife-turned-fugitive who loses
everything, including her beloved son, she brings a fragility and
tenacity that elevates the emotional avalanche of this Technicolor
tragedy. Even Sirk must have been envious.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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