Yes! A great, gripping fraternal melodrama, made better by a wonderfully big performance from Edward G. Robinson as a cartoonishly Italian patriarch, and chemistry between Richard Conte and Susan Hayward that comes from straight out of nowhere to slap you right in the face. Holy moly.
Lean and pacy western noir, with a lot of interesting ing performances (Royal Dano does so much in about 90 seconds of screen time) to make up for the slight lack in the lead department (Jeff Chandler isn't bad here, just not particularly... good).
There's an - unsubtle, but acute - bit in Mountainhead when the billionaires laugh at the idea that the other 8 billion human beings on the planet are really people in the same way that they…
Really, really loved this - although it's sort of a romcom, and is often very funny, there's a genuine emotional heft to it that hit me in a way I wasn't expecting. The use of Céline Deveaux's animation to illustrate Jeanne's tortured inner monologue manages to compliment Blanche Gardin's engagingly low-key performance rather than overcrowd it, and although Jean is pitched as something of a Manic Pixie Dream Guy, Laurent Lafitte gives him a genuine, complex weight.
Everyone in this film seems like a real person, dealing with very real problems, which makes the hard-earned simplicity of that final scene feel especially lovely.
