Big Lie Lylah Clare
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Big Lie Lylah Clare |
| Original title | The Legend of Lylah Clare |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Aldrich |
| script |
Hugo Butler , Jean Rouverol |
| production | Robert Aldrich |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Joseph F. Biroc |
| cut | Michael Luciano |
| occupation | |
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Big Lie Lylah Clare is an American movie from 1968 in which director Robert Aldrich does a merciless reckoning with the studio system of Hollywood's dream factory .
action
Hollywood, late 1960s: Elsa Brinkman dreams of becoming an actress. Her great idol, Hollywood star Lylah Clare, died under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. Because of her great resemblance to the deceased, she is chosen to play the leading role in a biographical film. The director is Lewis Zarkan, a tyrannical and merciless perfectionist and former husband of Lylah Clare. Elsa discovers many eccentric people in the Hollywood film industry such as sickly producers, lesbian acting teachers and vicious columnists. While the film is being made, Elsa Brinkman's personality is absorbed more and more by the role she has to play. After all, the mental breakdown she has to portray in the film occurs in her real life.
background
The film was the last film in which Kim Novak appeared as the lead actress.
Originally, Robert Aldrich wanted to engage Jeanne Moreau or María Félix for the lead role , when these were not available, the lead role went to Kim Novak. Aldrich ended his trilogy around the world of cinema with this film, including Hollywood Story ( The Big Knife , 1955) and What Really Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
The film was a huge commercial failure.
Josef von Sternberg was the godfather for the character of the director Lewis Zarkan .
criticism
“The man-eating apparatus of Hollywood, Aldrich wants to prove, works today as it did in the days of Lylah Clare. But his Hollywood film is not called for criticism: paneled interiors, glistening vines and melodramatic emotional sequences are stronger than the satirical episodes. Aldrich is also a servant of the stronger - the attacked apparatus. "
“A bitter criticism of the background to the film business, but the film suffers from the fact that it also claims the Hollywood clichés that it attacks. Therefore the evil attack remains superficial. "
“The psychological drama Artistry-Private Life takes on no shape and no persuasive power. Possibly from 18. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big Lie Lylah Clare. In: kino.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ FILM / NEW IN GERMANY: Death in Hollywood . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1968 ( online ).
- ↑ Big Lie Lylah Clare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 556/1968.
Web links
- Big lie Lylah Clare in the Internet Movie Database (English)