Fedora
Because a producer is eager to resurrect his career, he attempts to lure a beautiful actress out out seclusion to help him in his new project. Does she agree with his proposal?
27 March 1942, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
28 January 1945, Basel, Switzerland
1 August 1920, Kerassus, Greece
8 September 1930, Zurich, Switzerland
11 March 1916, Mainz, Germany
24 June 1906, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
5 February 1951, Zürich, Switzerland
1 October 1947, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
May 26, 1911 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France
17 April 1917, Atchison, Kansas, USA
17 April 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
28 December 1925, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
16 May 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
20 October 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 April 1921, Atchison, Kansas, USA
13 January 1930, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
22 November 1951, Cleburne, Texas, USA
29 August 1942, Berlin, Germany
11 June 1930, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
12 March 1932, Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
25 June 1937, Berchem, Flanders, Belgium
September 02, 2014
The offhand jabs at the dissolution of orthodox craftsmanship in 1970s cinema are overwhelmed by a deeper core of autocritique played out in the film's downward trajectory.
September 02, 2014
Wilder may have been a genius, but not everything a genius does is a work of genius. Fedora is a curiosity, not a lost masterpiece.
January 01, 2000
Fedora is old-fashioned with a vengeance, a proud, passionate remembrance of the way movies used to be, and a bitter smile at what they have become.
February 06, 2010
Gallant Hollywood-Babylon concerto
November 10, 2014
There's a lot of awkwardness to Fedora, from a sluggish pace to an awful bit of last-minute overdubbing that mars two performances, but there's a lot of fascination in it.
September 05, 2014
This one seethes with authentic nostalgia; Wilder's attempt not merely to eulogize earlier styles but to revive them feels somewhat embalmed.
August 14, 2007
The deliberate and sometimes dismaying anachronisms are signs of a deep, unshakable commitment to a personal aesthetic -- a commitment that is sometimes more moving than anything in the film itself.
September 03, 2014
This wearying nostalgia for golden-age moviemaking aside, Fedora exposes, through a major plot twist I won't give away, the off-screen pathologies that constitute the nightmares of the dream factory.
March 17, 2007
Brilliant homage to a bygone age of glamor.
October 23, 2004
Trust Wilder to know what he's doing, even during the deliberate clichés. See it like that, and I bet you'll like it. See it with a straight face, and you'll think it's boring and obvious.
August 14, 2007
Defiantly and proudly old-fashioned both in style and content, weaving an (intentionally) campy melodrama about the mysterious suicide of a faded movie queen into a spellbinding meditation on cinema and the price of manufactured illusions.
January 26, 2006
A shamefully underrated film, Fedora is Wilder's testament and one of the most sublime achievements of the '70s.
