Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Is it worth your Tuesday night? If you like movies where people spend two hours sitting in velvet chairs and talking about their feelings in very specific, flowery sentences, you’ll dig this. It’s basically a stage play that someone decided to film with a camera that barely moves. If you need explosions or even a singl...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Sidney Franklin
Bruno Ziener
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"Is it worth your Tuesday night? If you like movies where people spend two hours sitting in velvet chairs and talking about their feelings in very specific, flowery sentences, you’ll dig this. It’s basically a stage play that someone decided to film with a camera that barely moves. If you need explosions or even a single shot of the outside world that lasts longer than five seconds, stay far away. Charles Laughton is the real gravity here. He plays the father, and he doesn't have to yell to make..."
Rudolph Besier, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda
United States
Drama, Romance, Biography
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