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Baby Face
Dir.: Alfred E. Green | 71 minutes

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USA 1933 | 71 minutes | English | Hebrew subtitles

After her father's salon burns down, Lily moves to New York. From thereon, she uses her body to move up in life. But eventually, she will have to choose between love and social status. By any measure, Baby Face is a feral film. In the days before the Hays Code – the Hollywood self-inflicted censorship – this work depicts, without any embellishment, how a woman, with no connections or status, reaches the pinnacle of society. The film is an intense and ironic drama that quickly jumps from peak to peak – and what accomplishments these are. Stanwyck is tremendous as a somewhat diabolic woman whose operating system focuses on one thing and one thing only. In short, this is a singular film that completely captured the spirit of the time. Well, any era. Do not miss.