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Bookmark this pageMonsieur Hawarden (1968)
Director: Harry Kümel
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From Time Out Film Guide
Kümel's first feature is not much like his subsequent Daughters of Darkness or Malpertuis, although all three films centre on questions of sexual identity, and all three are bravura exercises in style. Monsieur Hawarden is an artily restrained melodrama about a Viennese lady around the turn of the century who kills one of her lovers and then retreats into hiding in masculine drag. It is hubristically dedicated to Sternberg, but in fact closely resembles Bergman's The Face in both its black-and-white chiaroscuro photography and its plotting. Relentlessly beautiful and sensitive, it clearly gave Kümel the chance to work a lot of 'art cinema' ideas out of his system before launching into his more commercial (and more imaginative) horror/fantasy films.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Harry Kümel
Producer: Jacques Sitter, André Thomas, Rob du Meé
Cast: Ellen Vogel, Hilde Uitterlinden, Johan Remmelts, Dora van der Groen, Senne Rouffaer, Xander Fisher full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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