
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.

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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Special screenings
Details
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.

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.
Thijs Havens
Programmer Eye Filmmuseum


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