“It’s useless to ask questions, for there are no answers.” “You cannot escape your fate.” Dedicated to Fritz Lang, who had died earlier that year, writer-director Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou la dernière fugue certainly expresses Lang’s fatalistic view of life. It is one of the most chilling and nightmarish films I have seen—and one […]
Daily Archives: March 22, 2013
One day Rollo, “heir to the Treadway fortune,” sees through a window a happily just-married couple, turns to a photograph of Betsy, the girl he loves, and comes up with the idea that he will marry her that day. He arranges everything, including the ship-ride to transport the happy couple to Honolulu, their honeymoon destination. […]