In This Our Life (1942) weblog Warner Bros. melodrama that exploits without infamy and without praise the star power of two ladies as Bette Davis and de Havilland. A film mainly linked to the interpretative power of Davis and his grace "awkward", he knows what to do and how it must be done, his swagger and perceived safety is not a bad thing. But the film is not deep, is struggling to hold the wire, and Huston directed his second seems almost intimidated by the power of Davis that if left in complete freedom still manages to be precise and targeted in exposing her emotions. For this reason, covers, unfortunately, the delicacy of a De Havvilland still in effect "Gone With The Wind", but it deserved more attention for developing a potentially interesting character.
A Woman's Face (1941)
On the face of Joan Crawford could write streams of words. But Cukor's film is this that enables us to understand its importance, its breathtaking beauty, its power to portray the hardness but also with fresh femininity, the pain of "woman". In this case the woman is Anna, incattività by the company, with his scar is the result of a society indifferent to dry and sensitive understanding of the needs of women, always a victim of human ignorance, which sees it as a heavy bundle of feelings and emotions difficult to understand and to bear. Joan Crawford guided by a sure hand and including Cukor (who also changing narrative register, with more dramatic colors, can still be wonderfully sensitive and delicate), nell'irrequietudine of his spirit, in the irregularity of his face, tells the Odyssey the death of a woman with soul and eyes, but finds himself the way of salvation in the simple power of love and of life itself.
Vertigo (1944) There are other adjectives to describe vertigo if not erotic. Great golden age of Hollywood noir, dark, black in the fullest sense of the word. The Italian title, more than the American one, describes the feeling of the film carrier. A dizzying taste sensual but also terribly dramatic. Tension builds up to unsustainable levels in the final. Gene Tierney's breath away, stupemda.
The Country Girl 
weepy and sentimental drama that made a star Grace Kelly, procuring a well-deserved Oscar. Amazing, exciting, beautiful. A film that is worth mentioning if only for the beauty of interpretation. Crosby also in an unusual but very effective and dramatic negative aura gives a convincing and intense: it manages to give a touch of class even at a pathetic and sad figure as Frank Elgin, a test is not easy to overcome brillanetemente. William Holden also good but the part of the beautiful and fascia perhaps beginning to pall.
weepy and sentimental drama that made a star Grace Kelly, procuring a well-deserved Oscar. Amazing, exciting, beautiful. A film that is worth mentioning if only for the beauty of interpretation. Crosby also in an unusual but very effective and dramatic negative aura gives a convincing and intense: it manages to give a touch of class even at a pathetic and sad figure as Frank Elgin, a test is not easy to overcome brillanetemente. William Holden also good but the part of the beautiful and fascia perhaps beginning to pall.
