| Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 1954 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Sirk freighted this material with surprisingly delicate art: gorgeous photography and staging, a fluency of camera work rarely seen even in A-level movies, and an earnest tone evident in the music, dialogue and acting. [17 Oct 1999]
Less magnificent than the Ambersons or the Seven perhaps, but a minor classic nonetheless. [26 Mar 2006, p.14]
Sirk turns all this into an extraordinary film about vision: sight, destiny, blindness (literal and figurative), colour and light; the convoluted, rather absurd actions (a magnificent repression?) tellingly counterpointed by the clean compositions and the straight lines and space of modern architecture.
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It is full of goodness of purpose, sweetness and nobility of character. [05 Aug 1954, p.38]
Loony, but spellbinding. [28 Apr 2006, p.C9]
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