Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (Venue Partner)
40 Arts Circle Drive
Northwestern University
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La Signora di Tutti
- When
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Friday June 11, 2010 (7pm)
- Where
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Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
- Price
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$6-4
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La Signora di Tutti (Everybody’s Woman)
(Max Ophüls, 1934, Italy, 35mm, 97 minutes)
La Signora di Tutti occupies a unique place in the well-traveled Ophüls’ filmography, being the director’s only Italian production (and one of his first as an exile from Germany). The signature Ophüls look and themes – sweeping camera movements, operatic mise-en-scene, and tragic heroines doomed by love – are not lost in translation. Following a botched suicide attempt, a famous star, Gaby Doriot (Isa Miranda) relives her sordid past through a series of flashbacks. Sublimely melodramatic, Ophüls’ early and hard-to-see masterwork is a cautionary tale about the perils of fame and celebrity.
Archival print from the British Film Institute.
