Sleep, My Love
Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk
December 23, 2015 - January 6, 2016
Claudette Colbert stars as a woman being driven systematically insane by her two-timing husband (Don Ameche) in this stylish noir thriller that showcases Sirk’s flair for baroque compositions.
This stylish noir (produced by Mary Pickford) opens strikingly as Claudette Colbert awakes in fright and freaks out aboard a moving train she can’t remember boarding. What unfolds is a taut, Gaslight-style thriller, as the Manhattan-dwelling Colbert’s two-timing husband (Don Ameche) systematically shatters her sanity. Throughout, Sirk showcases his flair for baroque compositions, making the most of mirrors, staircases, and shadows to create a sinister atmosphere of disorientation. The colorful supporting cast includes George Coulouris as a nightmare-inducing psychiatrist and a wonderfully vampy Hazel Brooks as a hard-boiled femme fatale. 35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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