CASABLANCA VI – Review

Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca

CASABLANCA V d: Michael Curtiz
In his essay ‘Casablanca, or, The Cliches Are Having a Ball‘ writer-philosopher Umberto Eco states:
‘Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. And this is the reason it works, in spite of aesthetic theories and theories of film making. For in it there unfolds with almost telluric force the power of Narrative in its natural state, without Art intervening to discipline it. And so we can accept it when characters change mood, morality, and psychology from [...]

by Dan Schneider | December 22, 2008   
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