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- It's an unsurprising and conventional romantic melodrama with an unnecessarily long runtime given how little actually happens, albeit one that showcases a great deal more sensitivity to its characters and their ethnicities given the director's lasting reputation.
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Jan 23, 2000 · Although the best silent comedy remains timeless and many silent films remain undated, melodrama such as “Broken Blossoms” seems old-fashioned to many viewers. Watching it involves an act of cooperation with the film–even active sympathy.
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Broken Blossom might have been merely a subtly lighted, skillfully directed slum melodrama [but] was lifted into a world of aesthetic purity and clarity, so that the audience went away uplifted as well as terrified.
BROKEN BLOSSOMS (United Artists, 1919), directed by DW Griffith, is a little film that's not only quite melodramatic, but terribly, terribly sad. In fact, it's labeled as American cinema's first tragedy.
Jul 31, 2014 · The performances by the three lead are sensitive, benefiting from the deft helming of Griffith, who establishes the right mood for his domestic melodrama, lapsing only occasionally into sentimentality (a recurrent problem in many of the auteur’s films).
That was Broken Blossom, 1919 melodrama which is considered one of his finest works and another classic of the silent era. The film is based on “The Chink and the Child”, story by English author Thomas Burke, originally published in his 1916 collection
It's an unsurprising and conventional romantic melodrama with an unnecessarily long runtime given how little actually happens, albeit one that showcases a great deal more sensitivity to its ...
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While Battling's discovery of Lucy's new friendship is melodrama of the most Victorian kind, the relationship between the two potential lovers goes nowhere which, while perhaps true to the film's title, leaves the story struggling for momentum.
