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Casablanca

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1942
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 102 min.

The definitive film of Golden Age Hollywood, Casablanca is one of those rare films that exists beyond criticism.

Cinematheque

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"Casablanca is not just one film [but] many films, an anthology," said Umberto Eco; "[Where] two clichés make us laugh[,] a hundred clichés move us... When all the archetypes burst in shamelessly, we reach Homeric depths." The definitive film of Golden Age Hollywood, Casablanca is one of those rare films that exists beyond criticism. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman strike unforgettable sparks as ex-lovers reunited in the shady Moroccan port during WWII, where Bergman's resistance fighter husband (Paul Henreid) is seeking a much-prized exit visa to escape from a hotly pursuing Nazi agent (Conrad Veidt) and a charmingly unscrupulous Vichyite chief of police (Claude Rains). A romance, a war film, a suspense picture and a meditation on rekindled idealism, Casablanca transcends its scattered parts to become a holistic image of "the movies" themselves.

Our screening of Casablanca will be presented as part of a special event with Dexter's Jeff Lindsay.

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