So Evil My Love

Film - 1948

8,0

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So Evil My Love it's a movie with Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll, Raymond Huntley Full cast. Directed by Lewis Allen. Original title So Evil My Love, runtime 112 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Balkan Castevet

Noir with many melodramatic overtones directed impeccably by Lewis Allen with a great use of black and white seasoned with excellent shadow play. Olivia's character is immediately interesting, she is immediately positioned as a woman who thinks and helps others, in boat goes to visit the sick Mark, in the continuation of the film the meeting with Mark will bring to light various aspects of his personality; a life lived "at the service" of her husband (now dead) without ever having truly realized her dreams. Furthermore, the character of Mark, through their love story, does not give birth to a "dark" side of hers but rather it brings out and nourishes given that Olivia herself tells how as a girl she was a "leader" at school and Allen manages to fully show us the feeling of "enjoyment" that Olivia feels in "commanding" certain situations but always with an attached previous drama; therefore a duplicity of the character's characteristics. So it is really interesting to see the whole arc and parable of Olivia's character from a super altruistic woman, even in a forced way, to a devious and ruthless woman for various actions where Allen's direction succeeds always capturing her internal drama. Consequently, her friend Susan is also well described, of whom the film almost plays with their (presumed) love relationship but without ever showing or delving too much into the topic, also given the times in which the film is shot. Susan is also living a life "at the service" of her husband, she is totally overwhelmed by him so much so that he controls all her financial securities and the house. The film will focus on Mark and Olivia's plan to take possession of this wealth .Therefore the film also talks about a certain repression that women suffer in married life and how they seek their "freedom".Mark, immediately Read all

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In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.