Gaslight (1944)

Cukor never been a director that interests me too. His work seems formally correct but common or garden, without any originality, devoid of life. Do we owe, at least, being a great director of female stars, as has been said over and over again? It is possible, but... how often that he never worked bad actress?. Movie studios surrounded the good old Cukor always the most select group of actors, in the heyday of the Star system.
"Gaslight" is no exception to this. Actors first row as Ingrid Bergman (very young, but always perfect), a Charles Boyer as usual overacting, Joseph Cotten...

As for the story it tells, it is clear that the staging betrays its theatrical base. Almost all of the filming takes place indoors. Although he received an Oscar for best decorated and eventually could be prodigious, today leaves much to be desired, its obvious artificiality in the outlook and painted sections. This technical detail is to synthesize as can be said of its plot development: well presented, nice, but lacking in credibility. Since the beginning of the film's caution, the far-fetched, even absurd intentions of the male, which collapses all attempts to create an atmosphere of suspense. The "office" of Cukor knows maintain, despite all the interest in that account, the narrative follows a course and remains fluid, although abortive thriller to the end.

In my view, "Gaslight" belongs to a series of movies too many academics that have aged very bad and his previous but deserve recognition deciduous a further review.


5/10