Criterion resurrects Ernst Lubitsch’s final completed film Cluny Brown (1946), a post-war comedy about pre-wwii class divisions in 1938 England. Headlined by Jennifer Jones, fresh off her divorce from actor Robert Walker and whose career was now completely in the hands of lover and eventual second husband, studio titan David O. Selznick, it’s an odd standout in her filmography of serious, dramatic turns. Having already acquired a Best Actress Academy Award, Jones is the titular protagonist, playing the prototype of a character whose overarching traits would eventually come to be known as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.…...
- 10/17/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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