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Title: 'All About Eve'
Release Year: 1950
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm.
Plot: After starting to be Margo Channing's assistant, Eve Harrington starts to plot a secret plan to take the golden spot she deserves so much.
Review: We are in the 1950s, with a huge crisis in film industry only starting. 'All About Eve' was critically acclaimed, but was also a survivor of the golden age. With a high-level cast led by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, who can say 'no' to a duel of actresses, both inside and outside the screen?
Davis performs at her best a woman obsessed with her age, whose career is attacked from the very inside by a rising Eve, a woolf hidden under a lamb's skin. But as usual, only Margo sees her opponent's darker intentions, a plan that is unmasked at the end, when Eve reveals herself as a manipulative and clever girl, who will do whatever it takes to take her worshiped actress' place.
I loved how the story was told with multiple points of view in terms of narrative style and, reaching a higher intensity as film goes by, there's nothing like watching both leading ladies turning crazy and evil for what is supposed to belong to them in a portrait of greed in film industry. The plot might not be groundbreaking but is perfectly built and structured, and performed without an inch of overacting. Finally, the ending is a funny wink to the spectator, who sees how Eve gets a new assistant, repeating the story initiated with Margo without her even noticing it.
Davis performs at her best a woman obsessed with her age, whose career is attacked from the very inside by a rising Eve, a woolf hidden under a lamb's skin. But as usual, only Margo sees her opponent's darker intentions, a plan that is unmasked at the end, when Eve reveals herself as a manipulative and clever girl, who will do whatever it takes to take her worshiped actress' place.
A powerul Bette Davis against a clever and evil Anne Baxter, while an unknown Marilyn Monroe observes the sceen in one of her first important roles. What else can you ask for?
I loved how the story was told with multiple points of view in terms of narrative style and, reaching a higher intensity as film goes by, there's nothing like watching both leading ladies turning crazy and evil for what is supposed to belong to them in a portrait of greed in film industry. The plot might not be groundbreaking but is perfectly built and structured, and performed without an inch of overacting. Finally, the ending is a funny wink to the spectator, who sees how Eve gets a new assistant, repeating the story initiated with Margo without her even noticing it.
