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Merrily We Go To Hell - The Criterion Collection
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Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, DOROTHY ARZNER (Dance, Girl, Dance), the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit-a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era.
A Star Is Born's FREDRIC MARCH (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and SYLVIA SIDNEY (Sabotage) turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye-leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early feminist commentary on modern marriage.
Special Features:
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler
- New video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Judith Mayne
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 83 mins approx
- Dorothy Arzner
- PG
- Frederic March
- Sylvia Sydney
- 1932
- English
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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Merrily We Go To Hell - The Criterion Collection
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RRP: £24.99
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Addiction, nonmonogamy, and female sexual liberation: decades before such ideas were widely discussed, DOROTHY ARZNER (Dance, Girl, Dance), the only woman to work as a director in 1930s Hollywood, brought them to the screen with striking frankness, sophistication, and wit-a mature treatment that stands out even in the pre-Code era.
A Star Is Born's FREDRIC MARCH (in one of four collaborations with Arzner) and SYLVIA SIDNEY (Sabotage) turn in extraordinary performances as the urbane couple whose relationship is pushed to the breaking point by his alcoholism and wandering eye-leading them into an emotionally explosive experiment with an open marriage. Exposing the hypocrisies and petty cruelties simmering beneath the surface of high-society elegance, Merrily We Go to Hell is a scathing early feminist commentary on modern marriage.
Special Features:
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Dorothy Arzner: Longing for Women, a 1983 documentary by Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler
- New video essay by film historian Cari Beauchamp
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Judith Mayne
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 83 mins approx
- Dorothy Arzner
- PG
- Frederic March
- Sylvia Sydney
- 1932
- English
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Frequently Bought Together
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Total Price: £56.98
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A lesson for us all
I just recently watched this movie and was amazed at how it seemed very modern for its time the casting was excellent as was the screenplay throughly enjoyed it right to the end five stars .
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