Sunset Boulevard

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A silent screen diva longing for a return. A young screenwriter longing for a break. A career girl waylaid by a broken heart. Throwing in a mysterious butler and a dead chimp, Wilder's film is one of the most painful studies of fractured innocence ever to reach the screen. Seminal. RA

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Review by Wolfram Parge on 28th October 2003

No dream is greater than consciousness, the celluloid canvas on which the dream of life is played out. And that no more so than in Billy Wilder's arresting evocation of megalomania, the delusion of grandeur, in which Gloria Swanson's Norma Desmond rails against the inferiority of the talking pictures. Faces, we had faces then, she cries out to William Holden's unwitting and failed writer, who is crushing under the avalanche of the silent film star's affection. A timeless performance by one of the true stars form cinema's golden age, Swanson is brilliantly supported by Erich von Stroheim as her butler. No actress has ever portrayed herself in such an incredible light, and hearts will burst when the veil is finally lifted from her eyes, with von Stroheim crying in his sadness, "Madame is the greatest star of them all."

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Review by Clinton Morgan on 1st April 2000

A frightening film. Anyone whose been in a relationship from which they feel entrapped will relate to this. Far superior to Robert Altman's The Player.

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