my favorite movie of 1937:
After being so smoothly, glibly charming in Trouble in Paradise (one of my favorite movies of 1932), Kay Francis becomes more rough and multi-layered and unpredictable in Confession, a heart-breaking drama that focuses on how the legal system struggles to deal with grey areas. This movie was ahead of its time with experimental camerawork, nonlinear storytelling, and MeToo themes. A sequence filmed from the perspective of a woman as she wakes up in a disoriented state, apparently having been blackout drunk with a womanizer, had me stunned to think that this movie came out in 1937, not 2017.
Confession should be better known. So should Kay Francis.
I don’t know of anywhere to stream or rent Confession, but I strongly recommend this DVD.
Click here for the full list of my favorite movie(s) of each year from 1920 to 2020.
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