The vote of 5 balances 10 for the acting and photography and about 0 for the script, which is mostly rubbish.
We are asked to accept astronomically remote coincidence at several points, and (as I see it) an unmotivated suicide as a pivotal event.
The recurring musical theme, which figures in the denouement is "Speak Low" by Kurt Weil. It was in a 1943 Broadway show, "One Touch of Venus." In the script, she and Johnny had performed the song. Nelly was arrested in October, 1944. Kurt Weil had fled Nazi Germany; his music was deemed decadent and could not have been performed in Germany in or around 1944.
Johnny had divorced Nelly, the survivor, just days before her arrest, apparently without notice to her, which might be possible because she is Jewish, but then what right could he have to her inheritance after the war?
Deeply unsatisfying film.
We are asked to accept astronomically remote coincidence at several points, and (as I see it) an unmotivated suicide as a pivotal event.
The recurring musical theme, which figures in the denouement is "Speak Low" by Kurt Weil. It was in a 1943 Broadway show, "One Touch of Venus." In the script, she and Johnny had performed the song. Nelly was arrested in October, 1944. Kurt Weil had fled Nazi Germany; his music was deemed decadent and could not have been performed in Germany in or around 1944.
Johnny had divorced Nelly, the survivor, just days before her arrest, apparently without notice to her, which might be possible because she is Jewish, but then what right could he have to her inheritance after the war?
Deeply unsatisfying film.