The Pleasure Garden
Film season "First works of great directors"
Film season "First works of great directors"
The Pleasure Garden, Alfred Hitchcock, 1925.
Digital projection, with presentation and talk.
Free entry, limited seat capacity.
The Pleasure Garden (UK and Germany, 1925). 75 min.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenwriter: Eliot Stannard (Novel: Oliver Sandys). Photography: Gaetano di Ventimiglia. Performers: Virginia Valli, Miles Mander, Carmelita Geraghty, John Stuart, George Snell.
Synopsis: Patsy is a chorus girl that works for the theatre company "The Pleasure Garden". One day she mets Jill, a young girl recently arriving from the city, who wishes to find a niche in the company. Patsy befriends her and gets her an audition, immediately becoming the star of the show. Jill is the fiancée of Hugh, a young soldier that will have to part from her in order to set out in a trip to the Tropics, where he must join the English colony. While Hugh is away and Patsy initiates a relationship with Levett, Hugh's partner, Jill's fame sky-rockets, and she will began to seek the company of other men.
Date 30 january 2013 at 18:00 to 21:00. Wednesday.
Place
Assembly Hall "Sanchis Guarner". Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication (Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32)
Cinema Club of the UV.
Contact cineforum.atalante@gmail.com
