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Laura (1944)

Director: Otto Preminger

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From Time Out Film Guide

Not just another noir classic of '44, Laura almost succeeds in pulling the screen apart at the seams, if only to stitch it together again in a visibly frantic finale. The narrator's a critic, the cop a would-be necrophiliac, and the femme fatale a faceless corpse... or are they? Less investigative thriller than an investigation of that genre's conventions - voyeurism (looking at, and for, Laura), a search for solutions (not just whodunit but whodunwhat), and the race against time (clues and clocks, fantasies and flashbacks) - the plot is deliberately perfunctory, the people deliciously perverse, and the mise-en-scène radical. (From the novel by Vera Caspary.

Author: PK

Time Out Film Guide


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  • Lynn Turner said...
    Posted on Oct 03 2010 03:45 A classic noir film, with a gorgeous setting and good acting, typical of the time. Vincent Price is unrecognizably young, except for his hallmark voice. Ideal for those with a black & white mystery fetish.
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