
Rosa Roma, an aspiring singer, is signed by backer Ogden Ward on condition that she not fall in love, appear in public, or use her own name. But she meets composer Griffith Ames, falls in love with him, and stars in his new opera.

A soprano gagged by contract, a composer who writes love in 6/8 time, and rubies that bleed history across Art-Deco carpets—welcome to the fever dream that is How Women Love, a 1926 pearl too long left in the oyster of obscurity. The film opens on a New York that never quite existed: skylines painted onto gauze, ten...

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" A soprano gagged by contract, a composer who writes love in 6/8 time, and rubies that bleed history across Art-Deco carpets—welcome to the fever dream that is How Women Love, a 1926 pearl too long left in the oyster of obscurity. The film opens on a New York that never quite existed: skylines painted onto gauze, tenement windows flickering like faulty diodes, and Rosa Roma—played by Katherine Stewart—already a ghost in her own biopic. She signs Ogden Ward’s parchment of negations: no public f..."
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