From Switzerland, Das Fräulein (top prize, Locarno) was written by three women: Andrea Staka, who also directed, Barbara Albert and Marie Kreutzer. Coincidentally, it is a film about three women: Ruza, who came to Zurich from Yugoslavia thirty years earlier, that is, before the Balkan Wars, and who now owns and runs a canteen (“The […]
Daily Archives: February 5, 2009
The supporting cast is fine, but Joel McCrea and Laraine Day in the lead roles mark Foreign Correspondent as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s weakest films. A loose, farfetched script also contributes to the disappointing result. But as propaganda aimed at U.S. neutrality just before and early on in the Second World War, the film is […]
Dennis Grunes 