Dishonored Lady

I find it very enjoyable to spend time alongside Hedy Lamarr. Her films are often magical as her natural presence in well-chosen stories melts the art into an audience drug. At other times, the supple pace of the narrative might feel out of place, in which case I would have appreciated an even slower pace so that Hedy could reign even longer. The wonderful modern world, in which a successful woman employed by a fashion magazine seeks a way out to be happy again, teaches us that emancipation is not self-fulfilling. The film features great costumes, great plot twists, and relationships see through today's optics. I'm delighted to have been able to compare a loose cycle of films based on Edward Sheldon, whose texts successively shone with Negri in the 1920s, Garbo and Dietrich in the 1930s, and at the end of his era of popularity, in the late 1940s, the last protagonist to take fate into her own hands was the world's most beautiful woman, Hedy Lamarr. Just a bunch of experiences like that. (2016.02.07)