FILM ARCHIVES

The Merry Widow

by Jim Hoberman

December 14, 2011

Dir. Erich von Stroheim (1925).
Assigned to adapt Franz Leher’s chestnut, Stroheim enlivens the somewhat Americanized, if pleasingly lavish, proceedings with as much sexual pathology as he can sneak in.

Mon., Dec. 19, 6:45 p.m., 2011

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