A Double Life
The Discreet Charm of George Cukor
December 13, 2013 - January 7, 2014
Ronald Colman, in his only Oscar-winning performance, plays a beloved thespian whose Othello complex ultimately drives him to madness and murder.
Cukor’s first collaboration with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon is an incandescent, psychologically astute record of an actor slowly cracking up. Ronald Colman, in his only Oscar-winning performance, plays a beloved thespian whose Othello complex ultimately drives him to madness and murder. The film is a study in contrasts: light versus dark, aggression versus restraint, the rarified space of the theater versus the late-night diners of a B-movie melodrama, and, of course, performance versus reality—one of Cukor’s career-long obsessions.
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