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Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: "Oh my God that's the saddest movie ever made." Long unavailable for home viewing, Leo McCarey's personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as cathartic affirmation of the dignity of human feeling, and in the testament of such achieves a subtle complexity of characterization on par with Renoir, Ford, and Hawks. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi, two of the great Hollywood character actors, appear makeup-aged beyond their actual years to portray the couple whose house the bank has foreclosed upon (the film was set and produced in the midst of the Great Depression), and who are forced subsequently to move into their children's homes in the city. A near-musical restructuring of gratitude and debt ensues once the offspring deem the couple's lodging an imposition: the two are separated, then reunited weeks later... as they glide inexorably into an uncertain future. Unrelentingly unsentimental, yet maintaining a balance of pathos and levity unseen in not only American studio pictures but most of the rest of world cinema, Make Way for Tomorrow exerted a powerful influence on Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Story and several other key entries in the Japanese master's body of work. It is a film profoundly concerned with questions of filial obligation and the way we treat one another as human beings; it is a film that, to give Welles the last word, "could make a stone cry."
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
A forgotten classic indeed
Until this month I had never even realised this movie existed and am really glad I got to see it on bd for the first time. It is as sad as they say, but portrays old age and separation in a non sentimental way, great acting from the two leads and a good transfer with a very good soundtrack.
Recommended you won't regret it.
Until this month I had never even realised this movie existed and am really glad I got to see it on bd for the first time. It is as sad as they say, but portrays old age and separation in a non sentimental way, great acting from the two leads and a good transfer with a very good soundtrack.
Recommended you won't regret it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Very touching film about love, relationships, families and getting older. I'm so glad I bought this film despite not having heard of it. Well acted and directed, and touching on a subject that is not broached often. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Watched this for the first time a few days ago. Can't shake it of my mind. Too often, even great films that I have enjoyed watching, don't seem to have much of an effect, but this film keeps lingering. Not an easy film to watch. Very sad, aching, defastating, but still I felt it also being very warm, touching and quite often also very funny. Very "human". I would say this is one of the very few "perfect" films. I very warmly recommend this film. I know I will be watching this many times over.
Blu ray is also of great quality in picture and sound for a film almost 75years old.
Blu ray is also of great quality in picture and sound for a film almost 75years old.
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