| Genre: | Classics |
| Year: | 1936 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 75 min |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke |
| Credits: | Directed by Dorothy Arzner |
Rosalind Russell's wild performance dominates Arzner's adaptation of George Kelly's play about a woman's struggle to control every inch of her home. By assuming the housewife's perspective and muting plot and conflict to discreet moments within the home, the film takes the cult of domesticity to a strange extreme. Through the director's subtle yet subversive treatment of domestic space, a remarkably sympathetic portrait emerges of a housewife who walls herself up, brick by brick, in a pathological tomb of her own creation.
(bw, 16mm)
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