La Paloma
La Paloma
| 29 February 1992 (USA)
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Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.

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goblinhairedguy

***mild spoilers*** This is an extremely stylized version of Camille, using operatic acting and sets, and absurd melodramatic techniques. Schmid was a colleague of Fassbinder, and uses many of the master's post-modern camera and performance techniques. For those who can appreciate the style, it's beautifully accomplished. If only Robert Taylor had dug up Garbo's corpse (it's in the novel)!

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