Sunset Boulevard

Dear Charlie,

Last week, on Tuesday, some of us were at the Cinémathèque for the third meeting of the Cinema Club.

We saw Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder, in 1950. The two main actors are William Holden and Gloria Swanson.

Almost all the movie is a flashback. The story takes place in America, in Los Angeles. It is about an old actress, Norma Desmond, who used to be very famous as a silent film actress. But with the arrival of talking pictures, his fame suffered of a big decline.

She now lives alone in her enormous house, with her butler, Max. Joe Gillis, a poor scriptwriter, comes by chance in this house. Norma asks him if he wants to work for her about her new script, Salomé, which will be her comeback on screen. He accepts, and starts to live in her house. But it was not thinking of Norma’s delirium and paranoia.

I really liked this movie because it was a great film noir, with a dark and creepy atmosphere. It was really interesting and some replies, about old age, and the fact that people do not want to grow old and look old really made me think of our society.

Going to see it, I did not think I was going to like it as much as I did!

Hope it was useful to you and that it (maybe) made you want to watch it.

Bye! J



Salomé