Marlene (1984)
by Maximillian Schell
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Actor: Marlene DietrichDirector: Maximillian Schell
Brand: DUB
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Movie Reviews of Marlene (1984)
Movie Review: Marlene and too much Max
Summary: 2 Stars
Maximillian Schell likes to put himself at the center of his supposed biographies of others -- the recent one on his sister/actress Maria Schell (MY SISTER MARIA) and this earlier one on Marlene Dietrich.
This one dwells and dwells on his trials with the willful, aging icon during this film's making. It's probably the foregrounding of those behind-the-scenes irrelevancies that the critics admired about this film. There isn't much room, however, for detail, so it winds up a pretty flimsy biography.
Max should have followed Marlene's simple formula for a biography. She tells him right there in the interview. But he may not have been paying attention.
Summary of Marlene (1984)
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATUREWINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY - National Society of Film Critics
WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY - New York Film Critics
An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and winner of the 1986 New York Film Critic s Circle non-fiction film prize, Marlene is a portrait of a remarkably strong-willed woman, stage-managing her career right up to the bitter end and brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight. In September of 1982, Oscar winning actor and director Maximilian Schell (Julia, The Man in the Glass Booth) arrived in Paris for a series of on-camera interviews with Marlene Dietrich intended for a documentary film on the screen icon s life and work. Despite having agreed to participate, the near-recluse Dietrich withdrew permission for her Judgment at Nuremburg co-star to film in her flat. Instead, in over 40 hours of audio-taped interviews, the 81 year-old screen legend provoked a battle royale of conversational mind games leading to unforgettably raw and truthful emotional revelations. Using Dietrich s candid, bruising, infuriating, and occasionally touching off-camera musings on childhood, marriage, sex, love, collaborators, co-stars, life, death, and the Holocaust, Schell sets her words, like a score, to the stunning film images of the young Marlene. The hypnotic final result buoyed by self-reflexive making-of footage, and an impressionistic re-creation of the sunless Paris flat where star and filmmaker fenced, fought, and ultimately connected is the (Sunset Boulevard of documentaries - Washington Post).
1984 Germany 91 min. B&W/Color In German and English with Optional English Subtitles
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