Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first upper-class woman to break the archbishop's position was his own distant relative, Dolores del Rio, Mexico's ageless beauty, who made her first film in 1925. Since then the gradual path of feminine emancipation has paralleled Mexico's growing industrial boom. As new jobs were created, parents began giving daughters the education necessary to fill them. In 1953, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines gave women the vote. The women have taken it from there...
...tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...
Technically, though, Room at the Top never misses a trick. The camera work is thoughtful, even analytic. Its insistence on detail provides much of the film's bite. By carefully modulating the differences between slum and castle, the sets manage to avoid an old cliche and interject a new point, that all is mediocrity. The visual suggestions of the set contribute importantly to the story, making the desire for "room at the top" ironic...
...movie's theme is mediocrity, the presentation of its moral is not. Room at the Top stands out as a careful and compelling use of the film medium. It tells its story with knowledgeable skill...
...disregards the abusrd Hollywood-type funeral cortege that closes the film, The Crucible turns out to be an exciting movie, which unfortunately does not do justice to Miller's play...