Du Barry Was a Lady
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle mgm / ball-kelly, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Our read · Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive mgm · ball-kelly · porter entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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