La foire aux chimères

Scarface Erich von Stroheim falls in love with blind angel Madeleine Sologne and naturally messes it up with his counterfeit side-business. It's one that you knew were going to be tragic already from the start, for a grotesque can never be happy. Cinema has always told us this. I liked Stroheim in this. Wish the crime plot had been handled better. Had potential as a thriller element, but they never took complete advantage of that, and instead focused on Stroheim's misery. Still a good movie.