The Man I Love
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
This 1947 film, somewhere between noir, musical, and melodrama, is one of Raoul Walsh’s least recognized and most moving, with Ida Lupino as a Manhattan lounge singer who heads to Los Angeles to live with her family and start a new life.
Raoul Walsh was another honored figure in Pierre’s pantheon. On one occasion, when the subject of one of Walsh’s films came up, Pierre simply whistled in admiration. This 1947 film, somewhere between noir, musical, and melodrama, is one of Walsh’s least recognized and most moving, rich in the “daily human pathetique” that Manny Farber identified as the director’s richest vein. Ida Lupino is the Manhattan lounge singer who heads to Los Angeles to live with her family and start a new life. Bruce Bennett is the musician she falls for, and Robert Alda is the brash club owner who won’t take no for an answer. If one were pressed for a single word to describe this movie, it would be “soulful.”
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