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I've Always Loved You

Frank Borzage / US, 1946 / 114 min.

Romance, drama and runaway emotion: everything in Frank Borzage’s classic about the unrequited love of a pianist for her maestro is Technicolor over-the-top. Chosen by Albert Serra, subject of the exhibition in Eye.

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There are big feelings, and there are unbearable feelings. In Frank Borzage’s romantic melodrama, brilliant trainee pianist Myra Hassman is torn by her feelings for her teacher, concert pianist and maestro Leopold Goronoff, and for a nice young man back home – a farm hand who has admired her for years.

I've Always Loved You by Hollywood director Borzage – who in the 1930s triumphed with beautifully designed romantic costume dramas – is seldom seen these days.

"I've Always Loved You is perhaps Borzage's masterpiece... The excess of insipidness and sentimentality exceeds all allowable limits and annihilates the power of criticism and reflection, giving way to pure beauty." -Luc Mollet, Cahiers du cinéma

Screening of a 35mm copy from the Eye collection.

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Director

Frank Borzage

Production year

1946

Country

US

Original title

I've Always Loved You

Length

114 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NLD

Format

35mm

Part of

Albert Serra

Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. Transforming the entire exhibition space into an immersive stage, Serra orchestrates nocturnal and clandestine encounters where theatre, cinema, and art converge.

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campaign image Albert Serra – Liberté

Why in Eye

Over-the-top Technicolor melodrama with parallels to the Powell & Pressburger classic The Red Shoes (1948), yet is fascinatingly sentimental, almost tongue in cheek. Actress Catherine McLeod (Myra Hassman) was partly cast because of her piano skills which are highlighted during a number of moving, unusually long, realistic concert scenes.

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