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Bookmark this pageLa Signora di Tutti (1934)
Director: Max Ophuls
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ophuls' only Italian film, in which once again his subject is female sexuality - as a 'danger' or threat, as a source of beauty, as a marketable commodity. The film star Gaby Doriot (Miranda) attempts suicide, and under anaesthetic she recalls the events that shaped her life. Commerce, industry and high finance are viewed with sharp irony throughout, but the melodrama centres on a seductive ambiguity: is Gaby a victim of those around her, or their willing accomplice? As ever, Ophuls' highly mobile camera shows rather than tells, emotionally sensitising all it lights upon.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Max Ophuls
Producer: Emilio Rizzoli
Cast: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatiana Pavlova, Nelly Corradi, Federico Benfer, Franco Coop full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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