A Woman's Face

Name: A Woman's Face
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir
Released: May 9, 1941
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 57

1941

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 9, 1941 | Passed

Summary: A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 106 min

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Josh Larsen

Cukor does stage a crackerjack sleigh chase in the climax (the movies need more of those), while overall managing to capture Crawford at what feels like a crucial juncture of her career, just as the gloves were really coming off. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

There's a rather intriguing dramatic quality to this American version of an original Swedish production (from a French play, Francis de Croisset's Il etait une fois) which had Ingrid Bergman as star. In a story of a woman's handicap and final regeneration. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The film is more strange than good, yet its self-conscious treatment of the politics of beauty seems eerily prescient. Read full review

Geoff Andrew

Despite some rather silly dialogue, scripted by the usually reliable Donald Ogden Stewart from a French play, Cukor's civilised handling of the actors and his often expressionist visuals lend credence to the tale, with atmosphere thick and juicy enough to cut with a knife. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Too bad that the director, George Cukor, doesn't have a little more feeling for the loony baroque; the story is treated much too soberly.

Staff (Not Credited)

As melodrama, sheer and simple, the story behind Anna Holm's murder trial is often superbly effective, but when it attempts to become a study of emotional anguish it merely betrays the essential hokum of which the film is constructed. Read full review

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