Acteurist Oeuvre-view Lilli Palmer Part 11: LES AMANTS DE MONTPARNASSE (1958) and MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (1958)

Published: March 29, 2024, 5:30 a.m.

For this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we watched Jacques Becker's\xa0The Lovers of Montparnasse\xa0(1958), in which Palmer, playing Modigliani's rejected lover Beatrice Hastings, perfects her persona of brittle dissociation; and\xa0M\xe4dchen in Uniform, the 1958 remake of the famous Weimar-era film about a teenager at an all-girls' boarding school who falls in love with\xa0her teacher. Our viewings provoke topics from the relationship\xa0between art and capitalism to the\xa0relationship between gender, sexuality, and militarism.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 35s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 LES AMANTS DE MONTPARNASSE (1958) [dir. Jacques Becker]

0h 34m 14s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (1958) [dir. Giza Von Radvanyi]

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