Preston Sturges - 1941
This is really charming. There isn't much to say about Sturges style except that it is easy and pleasurable, and hegely classical. Establishing, in for SRS, not too much cutting about, there you go. Nicely shimmering dark seas behind. A few more exciting moves, I especially remember here a scene that is essentially in the dark.
There is also a wonderful piece, screamingly funny as well as smart, where quick revelations of her former lovers are crosscutted with increasingly frantic-seeming thunderous trains, there horns and steam.
It's also obviously unusual that we have an intrusion of magic; the picture changing.
Sturges uses money to push people apart, mistaken identities that are the attempts to overcome these problems and set up a comic happiness, that we know can't last. Sturges then suggests that, in a world ruled by money, why not keep up these 'false' identities?
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