In My Top 10

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2003)

I saw this movie for probably the 20th time on TCM tonight. I agree with the other reader who said that this is one of the movies he'd take with him if he were going to a desert island.
So much has been said by other readers that I wanted to add one simple observation.
I was overwhelmed this time by the closing scenes at the wedding. I'd never noticed the framing this clearly. There's a room full of people in Wilma's home at the wedding. But the deep focus shots looking past Homer and Wilma into the living room frame first March and Loy in the forground to the exclusion of anyone else. Then the shot shifts and Fred is included up front and March, Loy, and now Wright are in the foreground.

This is film as narrative. It's beautiful, simple, and powerful.