Anna Christie

Garbo is great. The rest is basically unwatchable.

A fascinating pre-code time capsule about lower classes that somehow rings true in places. Although the melodrama is perhaps too forceful and tried, and the pacing is off, this is well worth a view. Be prepared to concentrate, though: the 4 main characters speak in strong accents of German, Irish, Swedish, or Drunk, which 80 years after the fact is sometimes difficult to decipher.

Very run of the mill early sound romantic drama. Nothing much is interesting other than a couple of the performances, with Garbo playing a pretty un-Garbo like character and showing off some range and George Marion giving an entertaining (though maybe also bad???) performance.

Anna Christie estreava há 90 anos na Espanha. Esse é mais um daqueles horríveis filmes de transição de mudo para falado, é sabido que até grandes diretores fraquejaram nessa transição, o que dirá de um zé-ruela como Clarence Brown. Plus: Quase não reconheci a Marie Dressler, tão acostumada a vê-la como senhoiras distintas em outros filmes. Box Obras-primas do Cinema Greta Garbo.

So that's what people from Minnesota sound like.

The movie is appropriately sordid, and the O'Neill dialogue gives us characters we may pity--and even admire a little--without descending too far into sentimentality. Like many early talkies, the pacing never quite works, and George F. Marion ("That old devil sea!") is close to unbearable, but Bickford, Dressler and Garbo are all very good.