Marilyn Scores Twice at the Deauville Film Festival

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Two of Marilyn’s most critically acclaimed movies are showing at the Deauville Festival of American Cinema on the Normandy coast next week, as part of The 50th, a selection of classic films ‘that changed the way we see the world’, marking the festival’s first half-century.

Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

“After two male musi­cians wit­ness a mob hit, they flee in an all-female band dis­guised as women, but fur­ther com­pli­ca­tions set in. The mas­ter of mas­quer­ade, ambush and innu­en­do instant­ly made this com­e­dy of gen­der flu­id­i­ty a clas­sic that the gen­er­al pub­lic embraced with­out reser­va­tion. Cross-dress­ing or the art of trans­gres­sion? Nobody’s perfect!”

Tuesday, September 10, 6:00 pm

All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

“A seem­ing­ly timid but secret­ly ruth­less ingénue insin­u­ates her­self into the lives of an aging Broad­way star and her cir­cle of the­atre friends … One of the sum­mits of clas­si­cism and meta-cin­e­ma on the fig­ure of the dou­ble and appear­ances, carried by a nar­ra­tion of crys­talline finesse.”

Wednesday, September 11, 10:00 am