22
Jun 2008
Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)
Posted in 映画 (film) by Jun-Dai at 10:00 pm |
On DVD with Lucía at home on 22 June 2008, fairly late at night.
An early femme fatale. Barbara Stanwyck is in peak form as the man-destroying seductress Lily Powers, hell-bent in making her way to the top (quite literally). Once there (and really, it takes her now time at all to get there), she becomes rather bored, and then the film is sort of downhill from there. Her longtime companion and servant Chico definitely adds something to the film as a fairly aloof and detached and somehow essential witness to Lily Powers’ transformation and social ascent.
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