https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2022/12/divine-1935/ The Cave of Forgotten Films Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2022/12/divine-1935/#comment-33118 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 02:28:45 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=26047#comment-33118 I never knew Ophuls did material written by Colette. It does not surprise me given that his sensibility often comes close to hers. I’m thinking of the young girlhood scenes from LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN; they could have easily been lifted from GIGI or her series about CLAUDINE.
Max Ophuls is tops in my filmplay book. Thanks, Jon.

]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2022/12/divine-1935/#comment-32745 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:10:21 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=26047#comment-32745 Image quality is only degraded in the fifth reel (seems like from a different print). Ophuls does some amazing work here with his trademark moving camera, and much of the content (drug use and trafficking, lesbian seduction, topless showgirls) outdoes even the most risqué contemporary Pre-Code American films like “Murder at the Vanities.” A fantastic find!

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