Douglas Pye – Screening the Past

Falling Women and Fallible Narrators

Post author:Douglas Pye
Post published:June 1, 2013
Post category:Issue 36 - Classics & Re-runs

Several of Max Ophüls’ late films make elaborate use of narrators who, in different ways, tell the story, or at least major parts of it: Lisa (Joan Fontaine) in Letter…