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The Song of Songs [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Drama |
Format | NTSC, Anamorphic, Subtitled |
Contributor | Lionel Atwill, Brian Aherne, Marlene Dietrich |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 30 minutes |
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From Rouben Mamoulian, the acclaimed director of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Love Me Tonight, Becky Sharp, The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand, comes this classic pre-Code tearjerker starring glamorous screen legend Marlene Dietrich (Desire, Angel, No Highway in the Sky). Lily (Dietrich), a pious German peasant girl, has always found comfort in the Bible’s “Song of Songs.” She clings to its joyous message of love when her father dies and she moves to Berlin to live with her strict aunt. There, she becomes the muse of aspiring sculptor Richard (Brian Aherne, A Night to Remember), and before long their working relationship turns romantic. But Richard is a man in love with his art, leaving Lily to fall into the arms of a hedonistic baron (Lionel Atwill, Doctor X) who offers her what she now desires more than love—revenge! Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by Oscar winner Victor Milner (Reap the Wild Wind, The General Died at Dawn).
Special Features:
-Audio Commentary by Film Historian David Del Valle
-Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
-Optional English Subtitles
-Theatrical Trailer
Product details
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.59 Ounces
- Media Format : NTSC, Anamorphic, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : March 31, 2020
- Actors : Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill
- Studio : KL Studio Classics
- ASIN : B083JW1JCN
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #66,174 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #659 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #4,912 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Marlene starts out a peasant girl and ends up a kept woman, and it all starts with an artist’s dream that devolves into a nightmare. The plot has a few unexpected twists that, while unlikely, adds meat to the story. By the time Marlene is working at prostitution everything appears hopeless. And, perhaps, it is. After all, a lot has happened. Watch it and discover the last twist. Even if you don’t like the movie Marlene Dietrich is a treat.
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First time I had seen Dietrich in a movie. Robert Mamoulian directed her beautifully in this tale of sheltered country girl coming to work in town at Aunty's (Alison Skipworth) bookstore and meeting young, handsome sculptor from across the road.
When her penniless father dies, young Lily Czepanek (Marlene Dietrich) goes to live with an unwelcoming aunt (Alison Skipworth), but soon befriends kind artist Richard Waldow (Brian Aherne). Bewitched by her unique beauty, he asks her to pose for a statue....the resemblance of which reminds Lily of the girl in her father's favourite Bible passage, "The Song of Songs". Lily's statue also becomes the obsession of Baron von Merzbach (Lionel Atwill), an older gentlemen who soon manages to split the young lovebirds apart so that he may claim the real girl for himself...
The movie made headlines when it was reported that Dietrich had indeed posed for the nude statue of Lily which features prominently in the plot.
Marlene Dietrich effortlessly shifts from innocent young girl, to jaded Baroness and fallen woman in this fascinating drama. I'll say without any hesitation that it's one of the best from her early career. Highly-recommended.
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2009
When her penniless father dies, young Lily Czepanek (Marlene Dietrich) goes to live with an unwelcoming aunt (Alison Skipworth), but soon befriends kind artist Richard Waldow (Brian Aherne). Bewitched by her unique beauty, he asks her to pose for a statue....the resemblance of which reminds Lily of the girl in her father's favourite Bible passage, "The Song of Songs". Lily's statue also becomes the obsession of Baron von Merzbach (Lionel Atwill), an older gentlemen who soon manages to split the young lovebirds apart so that he may claim the real girl for himself...
The movie made headlines when it was reported that Dietrich had indeed posed for the nude statue of Lily which features prominently in the plot.
Marlene Dietrich effortlessly shifts from innocent young girl, to jaded Baroness and fallen woman in this fascinating drama. I'll say without any hesitation that it's one of the best from her early career. Highly-recommended.
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In this 1933 film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, she is an orphaned country girl Lily, who goes to the big city, Berlin, to live with her vulgar, abusive aunt.
Across the road lives a young sculptor Richard, played by the rather colourless British actor Brian Aherne. He starts well, but seems to lose interest in the story before one's very eyes, playing the final (admittedly absurd) scene very badly indeed. Another Brit, the stiffly unyielding Lionel Atwill, is the lecherous, monacled Baron, to whom Lily succumbs when, after sculpting her nude and having an idyllic affair with her, Richard drops her.
Marlene, as she invariably did without any fuss in her first few American movies, acts everyone else off the screen, while apparently doing very little. Her sheer naturalness in her thirties films is not often enough stressed; she had been a good learner ~ and had by then already done quite a lot of both theatre and film ~ and understood what the camera needed to see, so she acted with just enough inner conviction (even in relative tosh such as this) as well as a unique, amused passivity and an erotic glow not even Garbo could match.
Here, she manages both to glow with an inner spiritual flame the role demands, as well as a maddening sensual flame she barely shows in her ingenuous eyes and abandoned body language. Oh, but Marlene really was a consummate actress and an unsurpassed tease.
Despite my criticisms, this is worth seeing, if only for the once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon that was Dietrich. There is a dogged, staid quality to this film ~ odd considering the ostensibly daring subject matter ~ but whenever Marlene is on screen, which is most of the time, nobody looks away.
The Universal DVD is an adequate transfer.