Anna Christie
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Movie Reviews of Anna Christie
Movie Review: "Gimme a whiskey"
Summary: 5 Stars
The first film talked about Greta Garbo. At first wanted to see this film in history (a prostitute marked for life, as in Susan Lenox), but I was impressed by the simple and beautiful it can be, by the images and script, in addition to knowing that the German version is a favorite Garbo that makes me even more respect. The German version is really beautiful, from the costumes, makeup until more decadent (dark circles and pallor on the face), making it more charming image of Garbo. I am delighted with this acquisition, as well as that of caratulas dvd of this collection is magnificent as it retains the style of old posters as artistic by the way they were made. The DVD is read by the two layers, but the German version only comes with English subtitles. I adore Greta Garbo.
Spanish:
El primer film hablado de Greta Garbo. Al principio queria ver esta pelicula por la historia (una prostituta marcada por la vida, como en Susan Lenox), pero me ha impresionado lo sencilla y bonita que puede llegar a ser, por las imagenes y el guión, además que el hecho de saber que la versión alemana es la favorita de Garbo eso me hace respetarla aún más. La versión Alemana es realmente bella, desde el vestuario, hasta el maquillaje mas decadente (ojeras y palidez en el rostro), lo que hace mas encantadora la imagen de la Garbo. Estoy encantado con esta compra, además de que las caratulas de los dvd de esta colección es magnifica ya que conserva el estilo de los afiches antiguos tan artísticos por la forma en que fueron hechos. El DVD se lee por las dos capas, pero en la versión alemana, solo viene con subtitulos en inglés. Adoro a Greta garbo.
Movie Review: German version included - so they say!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just read that this DVD will also include the German version of Anna Christie which Greta Garbo is said to have preferred. Keep your eyes peeled and lets hope so! Apparently this European version went farther with what line of work Anna was using to get by. You can tell it by the costumes as well. Filmed with a different cast on the same set!
They never seem to show this German version at any Greta Garbo festival (in America anyway) - I've never been able to see it, but looks like it will be seen quite easily on DVD! Yeay!
Movie Review: Garbo speaks AND THEN SOME!
Summary: 5 Stars
The English version of O'Neills moody "Anna Christie", with the great
Greta Garbo, is simply wonderful! I's short, almost like a one-act play, but packed with the great stuff those great old films were known for.
Garbo is the lynch-pin here, to be sure, but the supporting cast, Marie
Dressler, a Garbo veteran team-mate, Charles Bickford as Garbo's would-be
inamorata, and George Marion, as her father, all support her magnificently,
in a real ensemble performance! They don't make 'em like THIS any more!
Bryan Sheedy
Movie Review: Anna Christie
Summary: 5 Stars
The film is an excellent rendition of a fine Eugene O'Neill play made into a movie. Garbo is superb. Of note, the "package" is two films, one in German, one in English. This is a must see for Eugene O'Neill fans as well as film buffs.Movie Review: When she tells the truth, they all want her to 'beat it'...
Summary: 4 Stars
ANNA CHRISTIE is a wonderful film, beacause its stylistic clumsiness doesn't make in any less touching than it is. Garbo's performance is simultanousley ridiculous and terrific, her Anna being lost in the world a little bit less than Greta is lost in the English pronountiation. She swifts perfectly between radiant expressions of hope and innocence, and the sad knowledge of being 'doomed' by her past.
The shortest possible synopsis would be this: Anna Christie admits to her father and fiance-to-be that she 'was in the house'. 'Yes, in that kind of house'. And when they hear this, they all want her to 'beat it'. I wouldn't spoil much by revealing that there actually is a happy ending. It involves a very funny moment, when Anna is making an oath upon the catholic cross, and suddenly admits that she isn't catholic. Poor Matt's eyes at this very moment express all the anguish of pre-modern heterosexual man, who wanted his 'beloved' to be not only virgin, but also an eunuch.
Great fun--as long as you don't treat it too seriously.
Michal Oleszczyk, Tarnowskie Gory, Poland