The Man I Love (1946)

I see The Man I Love label "noir" a lot, but it feels much closer to a women's picture to me. Yes, there are shady characters and a gun, but the femme is more compétente than she is fatale, and the story is about her and her alone. Made during the last few months of WWII…

sakana1

Basically my platonic ideal of a classical Hollywood film, a melodrama styled as a noir, situated right at the perfect halfway point between emotive power and formal brilliance, between Ida Lupino's stone-melting stare and Walsh's majestic camera movements. Every shot feels…

Avalyn Wu

The Man I Love, um dos mais belos monumentos de ternura e compaixão existentes, não requer nenhuma recomendação. Convido-os a se deixarem guiar pelas tramas intrincadas de destinos plebeus cujas alegrias e tristezas geram o mais nobre encantamento, a se deixarem fascinar…

Bruno Andrade

"Funny how people always try and change each other. Doesn't add up does it?" Homesick on the holidays, club singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) returns to her family just in time to deflect the attentions of amorous gangster club owner Nicky Toresca (Robert Alda) away from her…

Jesse Snoddon

if you really want to understand raoul walsh, watch this movie first and foremost; lupino's petey brown belting out 'just my bill', singing of a man who she loves, not because of his body or his mind, but because of some intangible quintessence that animates his whole…

comrade_yui

The Criterion Channel is having an Ida Lupino series this month, so I decided to watch The Man I Love because I haven’t seen it, it is always being described as noir, and it is directed by Raoul Walsh. I seem to remember Marilyn Ann Moss’s Walsh bio saying it is one of his…

noir1946

“i think maybe this town could do a lot for you.” “i think maybe i could do a little something for this town.” stricken with homesickness, New York-based lounge singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) decides to go back to her Californian hometown and surprise her siblings for…

Jackie

Feet in the mud, eyes in her eyes. A film noir stripped of everything that makes it such: the mood is lighter, more fluid, the stakes are dilluted in the characters' behavior, the tension feels closer to a melodrama while the film plays like a Christmas moral tale told with…

Diogo Serafim

The (lost?) art of ordering specific (!) drinks just with hand gestures.

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