Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Monday 1 August 2016

Pervading, Brooding





Dark, deep, beautiful, aglow ........
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       Laughton's direction has Germanic overtones, not only in the expressionism that occasionally grips the image but also in a pervading, brooding romanticism ........ But ultimately the source of it's style and power is mysterious - it is a film without precedent and without any real equals.

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

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Night of the Hunter
1955

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