The Queen of Spades Review

Review of The Queen of Spades (1949) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

24/100

yeah this was such a lush experience that i wasn't quite expecting. Walbrook always finds ways to impress me in how he inhabits characters, and his spiral into obsession and out of that into a parallel spiral of greed is something only writers like Pushkin, Dostoyevsky and Gogol could demand of their tormented archetypes, compelled to follow the motions through to their traumatic end not only because their pen commands it but because that's how the human condition hits upon wants in front of needs. i can tell that i need another viewing of this because it's so rich, demanding a longer look to properly absorb the varietals of sorrow in which it supplies untold shades of in the cover of black and white photography. i think THE RED SHOES would go splendidly with this one in a double feature.