The power balance is based on power inequality. On the other, their relationship depends upon Annie’s subservience to Lora. On the one hand, both characters are sympathetic and rich in their own ways.
The two women maintain a close relationship that is full of double meaning. As Annie focuses on the ground beneath her feet, her boss, Lora looks up to stars, defying a handsome photographer’s proprietary desire to keep her, as well a sleazy agent’s indecorous desire to pimp her, by becoming an independently wealthy Broadway star.
For this, she is willing to work as a maid everyday, accepting a life of servility in return for a place where her small family won’t be persecuted. Annie’s only want is a home for herself and her daughter.
At first, her tragedy as a black woman is having aspirations that are unfairly tame when seen in tandem with white Lora Meredith’s (Lana Turner). Her delivery is punchy and respectful, but most of all tired. Her smile is warm and determined, but most of all tired. The bell it rings may hit sweet cinematic notes but the song is one about the tragedy wrought by injustice. Watching the film in November 2016, amid the din of racist voices emboldened by President-elect Donald Trump, it plays like a clarion call to wake up. Beneath pastel colours and a Disney-like score, it sneaks in a lament for what it means to be black in America. Imitation of Life, Sirk-style, is a perfect melodrama. This was a second adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s 1933 novel, the first being a black-and-white John M Stahl picture starring Claudette Colbert. He adopted an Anglicised pseudonym and began working regularly throughout the 1940s and ’50s until his biggest box office hit, and final feature film from 1959, Imitation of Life. Stahl (it) filme de 1934 dirixido por John M.Once melodrama arises as a subject, it’s hardly original to praise the German director Douglas Sirk or to note that – although he has become something of a cinephile godhead his influence ablaze in recent films like Todd Haynes’ Carol – his most enduring melodramas were dismissed by critics of the day.īorn Hans Detlef Sierck, Sirk left his homeland for Hollywood in 1937 in solidarity with his Jewish wife, as the Nazi regime grew in power. Stahl (en) film del 1934 diretto da John M.
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