


Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for heavy, theatrical melodrama from a different era, maybe. If you need your movies to move faster than a glacier, stay away. It feels like an endurance test for anyone who isn't already obsessed with early 20th-century stage-to-screen adaptations. Cheri-Bibi is one of t...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Carlos F. Borcosque

Carlos F. Borcosque
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for heavy, theatrical melodrama from a different era, maybe. If you need your movies to move faster than a glacier, stay away. It feels like an endurance test for anyone who isn't already obsessed with early 20th-century stage-to-screen adaptations. Cheri-Bibi is one of those films where everyone acts like they’re trying to reach the back row of a massive theater. The gestures are huge. The expressions are frozen in time. It reminds me a bit of th..."
Miguel de Zárraga, Gaston Leroux, Edwin Justus Mayer
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