Film
The Women/Mildred Pierce
- Director
- Michael Curtiz, George Cukor
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 244 mins
The big-hearted Watershed offers an opportunity to stare at Joan Crawford‘s scary eyebrows for more than four hours with this terrific double-bill.
The Women is a classic George Cukor “women’s flick” with an all-female cast bitching about men. Drama is supplied when shopgirl Crawford snares another gel’s chap. Claims that this boasts some kind of proto-feminist manifesto are somewhat hard to sustain when gooey-eyed Norma Shearer takes back her philandering hubby, but it’s all good fun nonetheless.
Mildred Pierce is a bleak, noir-ish tale of treachery that provided Crawford with the Oscar-winning comeback role of a waitress-turned-restaurateur who competes with her own daughter for the love of a playboy.
It’s told in flashback from the moment of the playboy’s murder.
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