Thursday, July 24, 2014

Love Before Breakfast (1936)

A woman is in a relationship with an executive, and is coveted by a capitalist; the latter buys the company at which the former works, and assigns him a position in another country.

Minor comedy, which tackles some interesting aspects of the female psyche. In this instance, it is implicitly argued that women resent being the weaker party in a relationship, and therefore crave at the very least the illusion of power. At one point she says that "this isn’t going to be any Taming of the Shrew", yet the film is an update of sorts of that story. The last scene is funny, perhaps enough so to justify a viewing of the film, which is short by our present standards.

Rating: 33

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