Fedora
Because a producer is eager to resurrect his career, he attempts to lure a beautiful actress out out seclusion to help him in his new project. Does she agree with his proposal?
1 October 1947, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
11 March 1916, Mainz, Germany
27 March 1942, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
28 December 1925, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
29 August 1942, Berlin, Germany
13 January 1930, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
28 January 1945, Basel, Switzerland
8 September 1930, Zurich, Switzerland
25 June 1937, Berchem, Flanders, Belgium
17 April 1921, Atchison, Kansas, USA
November 10, 2014
There's a lot of awkwardness to Fedora, from a sluggish pace to an awful bit of last-minute overdubbing that mars two performances, but there's a lot of fascination in it.
September 02, 2014
The offhand jabs at the dissolution of orthodox craftsmanship in 1970s cinema are overwhelmed by a deeper core of autocritique played out in the film's downward trajectory.
August 14, 2007
The deliberate and sometimes dismaying anachronisms are signs of a deep, unshakable commitment to a personal aesthetic -- a commitment that is sometimes more moving than anything in the film itself.
August 14, 2007
Defiantly and proudly old-fashioned both in style and content, weaving an (intentionally) campy melodrama about the mysterious suicide of a faded movie queen into a spellbinding meditation on cinema and the price of manufactured illusions.
October 23, 2004
Trust Wilder to know what he's doing, even during the deliberate clichés. See it like that, and I bet you'll like it. See it with a straight face, and you'll think it's boring and obvious.
September 02, 2014
Wilder may have been a genius, but not everything a genius does is a work of genius. Fedora is a curiosity, not a lost masterpiece.
January 01, 2000
Fedora is old-fashioned with a vengeance, a proud, passionate remembrance of the way movies used to be, and a bitter smile at what they have become.
January 26, 2006
A shamefully underrated film, Fedora is Wilder's testament and one of the most sublime achievements of the '70s.
September 03, 2014
This wearying nostalgia for golden-age moviemaking aside, Fedora exposes, through a major plot twist I won't give away, the off-screen pathologies that constitute the nightmares of the dream factory.
March 17, 2007
Brilliant homage to a bygone age of glamor.
September 05, 2014
This one seethes with authentic nostalgia; Wilder's attempt not merely to eulogize earlier styles but to revive them feels somewhat embalmed.
February 06, 2010
Gallant Hollywood-Babylon concerto
