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Blank Page (1960 ) Stanley Donen

Crisis matrimonial and modernity. 1960 years

key cinematic modernity. The year where there are two movies that dazzle innovation, which will become referents in film history, one American and one European Psycho Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Adventure Antonioni. Not chance the two are linked from the disappearance of a person. Marion Crane / Janet Leigh and Anne / Monica Vitti.

But it is also the year As a mirror of Ingmar Bergman, in which Harriet Anderson was troubled by the possible existence of God, behind the wall of the room. A movie of mysterious doors and empty rooms. blank page might be the American response to mirror As . Donen staged a schedule of doors and rooms, where a marriage of the British nobility, The Great Rhyall played by Cary and Deborah Kerr, held live in an old castle that receives daily visits from tourists, as a system to meet the costs of maintaining them. One such tourist, American millionaire, to name European painter, Charles Delacre, Robert Mitchum, miss chance in this mysterious maze of rooms to finish traspansando the forbidden door, where he will meet with a woman Deborah Kerr nobility, whose marriage is in a state of fossilization and routine. An encounter with the unknown that will become a deeper experience of love.

page will encompass blank in the sitcom marriage, gender to which they belong such masterpieces as The Awful Truth (1939) Leo Maccarey, New Moon (1941) Howard Hawks, or The Lady Eve ( 1941) Preston Sturges. "He described the genre of the sitcom marriage as an endeavor to demonstrate how the miracle of change can occur and consequently become common life marriage of a couple on the verge of divorce" [1] This miracle referred to Stanley Cavell is referred to her husband Nora helmet at the end of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Nora: Oh Torvald, would produce the greatest of miracles

Helmer: "The greatest miracle?

Nora: Do both have to change as ... Torvald oh I do not believe in miracles.

Helmer: But I want to believe in them. Tell me. "Change as ....?

Nora: That our life together becomes a marriage. Goodbye

The marital comedy, will then representation and modeling of this miracle exists and can be posible.Por therefore the mission of Cary Grant, how could it be otherwise, is to regain the love of his wife and her away from her lover, believing it in miracles. The viewer knows that if someone is capable of it, this is Cary Grant, because we've seen it before reviving a marriage that everyone took for dead, Philadelphia Story (1940) in New Moon ( 1941) or even You and I ( 1951), where cast also shared with Deborah Kerr. What will drive the plot in Blank Page , like all sitcoms, is that the two main characters meet again, so any criticism of the predictable end, reveals an ignorance about the rules of this kind, that if something is surprising is that combines similar events as diverse effect.

Stanley Donen is a director known for his knack for musical Singing in the Rain (1952) or Royal Wedding (1951), and although Blank Page does not belong to this genre, if it preserves a certain rhythm and musicality in movement and speech of the actors. The scene where couples split screen Cary Grant / Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons / Robert Mitchum talk on the phone is a good example of air that hovers over the movie musical.

But there is something very modern in this film by Stanley Donen, beyond his years, and has highlighted Carlos Losilla "[...] Blank Page and are Indiscreta , his latest film, more attentive to the movements of the actors and the vacuum left by the disappearance, feelings and its eclipse, the couple and the threats they close on it, the adventure that must be overcome to be together "[2]. The eclipse and disappearance two figures" antonionianas "modernity Codes appear in this ; classic American film.

I think there is an extraordinary relationship in blank page and From overnight (1997) by Jean Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet, which shows the cross can become the resonances and echoes in the film. From overnight is an adaptation of one-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg in which one partner after returning from the theater, arrives at his apartment, where a crisis erupts marriage that will last all night. In the work of Staub and Huillet's musicality is evident as it is an opera, but as I noted above Donen film retains certain features of the musical, two movies in the shadow of doubt and crisis will be extended by partners, in both his characters come to the same conclusion Freud: the discovery of an object is in fact his resdescubrimiento and finally at the end of the two films make their appearance the children, how children formulate Rhyall family as well as asking the child to the marriage of From overnight? "What are modern men?".

[1] Cavell, Stanley, The pursuit of happiness, the marriage sitcom in Hollywood ed: Paidós. pp: 32;

[2]. Losi, Carlos, The invention of modernity: History and melancholy in the film story . Director: Núria Bou i Sala. Pompeu Fabra University, Department of Communication 2010.