The Devil is a Woman
Dir: Josef von Sternberg
USA, 1935, 79 minmins, DCP
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton
As a devilish Spanish beauty who makes a game of seducing and discarding her lovers, Dietrich gives an elegantly stylized performance that treads a fine line between ambiguity and self-parody. Adapting the same Pierre Louÿs novel as Buñuel did for That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Sternberg transforms the comic-opera into his “heartless parable of man’s eternal humiliation in the sex struggle”. A pinnacle of visual style – in his own cinematography – as his final tribute to Dietrich, Sternberg proclaims that yielding to her allure is simply ineluctable.
Venice Film Festival: Best Cinematography
1/12 (SUN): Seminar with Lau Yam and Kiki Fung
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Door Tickets Available at the Venue on Screening Date 2019-12-01 (Sun)
14:45Buy Ticket 2019-12-28 (Sat)
16:45
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
K11 Art House (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk / Q&A
Remarks
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