The fourth film in our year-long celebration of cinema’s annus mirabilis, 1939: one of Bette Davis’s finest performances in the classic women’s picture (AKA “romantic drama that will make you cry”), Dark Victory, in which a young woman is going to die and can’t do anything but decide how to live her final days. But it’s still less miserable than your averge Scandinavian art film.
The film can also make the modest boast that it’s the best movie ever made with future president Ronald Reagan in the cast.
The review goes up Sunday, April 26th; be sure to watch ahead of time so you can join in what I expect, from past results, to be a relentlessly static conversation in comments.