HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (1937)
with soundtrack, 97 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
“Taking a chance on love. The feeling of freedom in this beautiful blend of melodrama and romantic comedy speaks to director Frank Borzage’s belief in the invincibility of love.
Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, the film is a sublime paean to love. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)—and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe. Lent a palpable erotic charge by the chemistry between its leads, this delirious vision of lovers beset by the world passes through a dizzying array of tonal shifts—from melodrama to romantic comedy to noir to disaster thriller—smoothly guided by Borzage’s unwavering allegiance to the power of love.
A romance, farce, murder mystery, and disaster movie rolled into one, History is Made at Night above all is a valentine to the indestructibility of love. A stunning finale caps the proceedings.”
Tickets: $25/$20
“Taking a chance on love. The feeling of freedom in this beautiful blend of melodrama and romantic comedy speaks to director Frank Borzage’s belief in the invincibility of love.
Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, the film is a sublime paean to love. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)—and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe. Lent a palpable erotic charge by the chemistry between its leads, this delirious vision of lovers beset by the world passes through a dizzying array of tonal shifts—from melodrama to romantic comedy to noir to disaster thriller—smoothly guided by Borzage’s unwavering allegiance to the power of love.
A romance, farce, murder mystery, and disaster movie rolled into one, History is Made at Night above all is a valentine to the indestructibility of love. A stunning finale caps the proceedings.”
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