A chance encounter sparks a reconciliation between Mildred and Monty, but Mildred's devotion to Veda threatens to destroy everything for which she has worked.A chance encounter sparks a reconciliation between Mildred and Monty, but Mildred's devotion to Veda threatens to destroy everything for which she has worked.A chance encounter sparks a reconciliation between Mildred and Monty, but Mildred's devotion to Veda threatens to destroy everything for which she has worked.
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- TriviaOperatic pieces performed in the movie deviated from that of the book. Author James Cain's mother was an operatic singer and he carefully selected the pieces used in the book. The filmmakers decided to use a selection that more closely paralleled the conflict between mother and daughter. One selection is the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's "Magic Flute". The aria features a daughter that clashes wills against her possessive mother.
- GoofsThe Veda character who is supposed to have learned about classical opera mispronounces the name Rossini as Rose-see-knee It should be Russ-see-knee.
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Monty Beragon: Sit down a minute and take a lesson in interior decorating.
Mildred Pierce: Love lessons in decorating.
Monty Beragon: Do you know the best room I was ever in?
Mildred Pierce: No, tell me.
Monty Beragon: That den of yours, or Bert's rather, over in Glendale. Everything in that room meant something to that guy. Those banquets, those foolish looking blueprints of houses that'll never be built. They do things to you because it's all part of him and that's why the room is good. And do you know the worst room I was ever in?
Mildred Pierce: Go on. I'm learning.
Monty Beragon: It's that living room of yours in the same house. Not one thing in it, until that piano came, ever meant a thing to you - or anybody else. You see, a home isn't meant to be a museum filled with Picasso paintings or oriental rugs like this place used to be. It's meant to be furnished with things that actually matter. Let's have this place the way we want it. And if you don't like the "pie wagon" corner, I do.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011)
Moreover, having just watched "Millenium" and concluded that the show shouldn't have been turn into movies, here, it's the contrary: those five hours should have been edited in a fine movie because the scenes drag a lot, all the more than they happen a lot of times in Mildred's house (it would be interesting to compare with the classic black and white release then).
I'm really ambivalent with the story : if the goal was to make me cry in front of this courageous woman who had to work, well, i'm not that audience: she isn't poor: she has a luxurious and big house, a car, pays piano lesson to her daughter, so really, she isn't a self made woman. She hasn't started from nothing. For me, it's the usual crap of the "grace and miracles of the rich" and i just really don't buy those lies. In the last episodes, the show turns into a family drama around an "american idol". Again, the whims of the fortunate left me totally unmoved.
Sure, Kate carries all the show on her shoulders and proves that she's a great actress. It was fine to see that Al's daughter in "Simone" has become a young woman. The lavish production from the thirties America would please the Indy fans but it's not enough to recommend it.
And as a final stab, I just wonder how the privileged elitist critics who praise it found the repetitive gratuitous nudity?
- leplatypus
- Dec 29, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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