Mirror, Mirror
Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion
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Queer & Now & Then: 1988
Close to you: Todd Haynes’s Superstar uses disease as cover for a social rot so entrenched there may be no cure
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10 Films That Are The Definition of Melodrama
5. Autumn Sonata (1978) Few films portray mother-daughter relationships as succinctly and realistically as Autumn Sonata. Bergman was the authority in portraying dysfunctional-families on screen. Many of his most famous films like Cries & Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, and Scenes from a Marriage are among the truest depictions of family life put on film. In a way, many of his films are the opposite of melodramatic. But it is possible for a film to be both jarringly real and melodramatic. It is rare and difficult for a film to achieve this, but Autumn Sonata does. It is the story of a mother...
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