Tuesday, August 21, 2007

There's Always Tomorrow - Douglas Sirk (1956)

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck come together again to play out this melodrama of mid-life crisis and infidelity. The studio-prescribed happy ending is undermined by the pools of darkness that MacMurray and Joan Bennette walk through at the end of the film as well as the half-hearted attempts at "unconditional love" shown by his children.

Screened at the Brattle Theater

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