La Habanera
Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk
December 23, 2015 - January 6, 2016
Puerto Rico goes from paradise to personal hell for a Swedish expatriate after 10 years of marriage to a cruel, controlling nobleman. Tropical romance, bacteriology, and musical numbers all collide in this lush, offbeat melodrama.
Exoticism, bacteriology, and musical numbers all collide in this lush, offbeat melodrama. Zarah Leander stars as a Swedish woman who leaves her native country behind for the romantic lure of Puerto Rico (with the Canary Islands filling in for the Caribbean). After 10 years of marriage to a cruel, controlling nobleman, the island paradise has become a personal hell—while the threat of a deadly tropical fever hangs in the air. Sirk downplays the story’s nationalistic message (then de rigueur in the Nazi-controlled film industry he would soon flee) to create a poetic human tragedy set amid a sumptuous world of glittering light and shadow.
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