New York, mid 19th Century. A shy girl, no longer young but very rich, a contemptuously father and a charming suitor interested in her money are the protagonists of this famous story of money, illusion of love, disillusionment, regeneration and liberation that William Wyler put on the screens from the novel Washington Square. An exemplary and masterful adaptation, ah high example of Hollywood cinema, intense and accurate for the power of images, the richness of shades, the intensity of the drama. Rewarded with the Oscar to Olivia de Havilland.
Program
The Heiress by William Wyler (USA 1949, 115’) with Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Mona Freeman, Betty Linley, Selena Royle, Vanessa Brown, Ray Collins, Harry Antrim, Paul Lees.
