Mata Hari
by George Fitzmaurice
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Actor: C. Henry Gordon, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Ramon NovarroDirector: George Fitzmaurice
Brand: GARBO,GRETA
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Producer: George Fitzmaurice
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Writer: Benjamin Glazer
Writer: Doris Anderson
Writer: Gilbert Emery
Writer: Leo Birinsky
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Mata Hari
Movie Review: Best exotic Dancer sequence, EVER
Summary: 5 Stars
Garbo looks alluring and superb in every second of footage. She first appears as the exotic dancer, dedicating her dance to Shiva, as a bayadere would in a sacred temple, except this is Paris and she is dancing for a select audience wearing an incrdibly elaborate costume that she manipulates quite successfully in a hieratic dance. Her headdress is a double umbrella composition in Thai style that is the perfect accesory for this moment, but by no means the only one she will wear through this tale of mysetry and intrigue, seduction and espionage.
Adrian's gowns have never looked better. He never failed with Garbo, and in this movie surpassed his talent, it is his ultimate creation. She takes full advantage of the exotic silks, mostly done with Rajastani embroidery to look absolutely stunning. Everyone looks at her wherever she goes in the film and you can't blame them, it was like watching a show for free. Also, you understand that American audiences adored her because the men must have appreciated her feline sensuality as much as the women admired the way she wore those fantasy clothes and was always on the verge of fainting from an overdose of romance.
I also appreciated the complexity of the spy system, including the killer with a deformed foot that dragged it on a special hoof-shoe, which addded a touch of Terror movie to his nasty job.
Ramón Navarro is perfect for the Russian officer role. He is priceless when he walks in "the morning after" with a huge floral tribute to throw at her feet and calling after her "Mata" with the familiarity of a five year relationship. Their scenes together are full of romantic magic, they obviously had great chemistry, which now knowing the biographical information with more detail than the audiences did back then, we can appreciate as truly great acting. The aging Lionel Barrymore is also perfect as the embittered Russian ambassador that causes her downfall and we can all breath better after Garbo shoots him down, and makes it look like a suicide so well that we have hopes it will work out too.
Her trial scene must have been an inspiration for Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", her stoic, Calvinist simplicity is an embodiment of medieval death figures, and must have been a model for his chess-playing death character. Amazingly, she looks as glamorous in the simple black cape and hair pulled back as she did wearing all the jewelry of the orient: and that's one of the differences between a true legend and a star.
Summary of Mata Hari
Garbo plays the World War I dancer-turned-German spy Mata Hari.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
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