We'll Let the Gods Decide
Autumn Leaves (1956) is interesting in how its two genres struggle with each other rather than blend. When the Criterion Channel put together its “Frame of Mind” collection of films about psychiatry, it included two Joan Crawford films: 1947's Possessed, a noir melodrama, and Autumn Leaves, from 1956. Another melodrama with noir elements, Autumn Leaves is less successful than Possessed but still interesting—for the way its two genres struggle with each other rather than blend, and the way psychiatry’s invoked not just to tie up the plot but to resolve the tensions of the film...
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