Chains
Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama
December 13, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Wrongly accused of having an affair, a wife and mother is cast out of her family in this deliciously overwrought, subversively Sirkian tearjerker from Italian melodrama maestro Raffaello Matarazzo.
Those titular ties would be the circumstances that bind a persecuted wife and mother (Yvonne Sanson, in a role Joan Crawford would have relished had Hollywood tried its hand at a remake) who is cast out of her family when she is wrongly accused of having an affair with a criminal. Though dismissed in its day by critics who favored neorealism’s grit over gloss, melodrama maestro Raffaello Matarazzo’s deliciously overwrought, two-ton tearjerker is radical in its own subversive way, embedding within its soap-opera suds a Sirkian critique of bourgeois morality and the societal forces that shackle women. 35mm print courtesy of Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
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