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Irving RapperScénario:
Casey RobinsonPhotographie:
Sol PolitoMusique:
Max SteinerActeurs·trices:
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, John Loder, Ilka Chase, Lee Patrick, Franklin Pangborn (plus)Résumés(1)
Charlotte Vale, une jeune fille laide et renfermée, ne supporte plus l'autorité de sa mère et se rend dans une maison de repos. Trois mois plus tard, elle est métamorphosée en une superbe femme. Lors d'une croisière en Amérique du Sud, elle rencontre un homme marié, Jerry, et Tina, sa fille dépressive. Au contact de Charlotte, Tina s'épanouie. (Action Cinémas/Théâtre du Temple)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Bette Davis demonstrates her mastery in a film that didn't manage to captivate me in the slightest. She’s great as the protagonist, and even her male counterpart is good, but overall, the film just bored me, and I didn't find anything in it that sufficiently captivated me. The transformation from an ugly duckling to a beautiful woman was worth it, however.
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Now, Voyager may at first glance look like a 1940s Hollywood melodrama, some would even say it's penny-dreadful. Yet you really can't erase the time gap without knowing the context. In the Protectorate, we mostly had a hard time with stars like Bette Davis, but nowadays it is not a problem to study at least something about the author of the novel's subject, isn't it. Olive Higgins Prouty became famous for her drama "Stella Dallas" (1923), a story that inspired stage and film adaptations (including a modern one with Bette Midler). She went on to write a pentalogy of so-called "Vale novels" from 1931 to 1951, of which "Now, Voyager" is the third volume. Prouty's work has traditionally been praised for its emphasis on psychotherapy, which she derived from her own experience. Prouty was also a personality who greatly influenced Sylvia Plath and if we put all this together, the resulting film becomes more understandable. Let's not be fooled by the packaging.
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