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Event Date as Display String:

Saturday, January 25, 2020, 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St. , Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/the-farmers-wife-2020-01

Event Description:

"I don't remember too much about The Farmer's Wife," Hitchcock told
Truffaut, "but I know that filming that play stimulated my wish to
express myself in purely cinematic terms." Indeed, contrary to the
chatty nature of Eden Phillpotts' bucolic romantic comedy (in its time
the longest-running play on the London stage), Hitchcock channels his
characters' desires and regrets with telling glances and point-of-view
shots. The story of a wizened widower looking for love in all the
wrong places is played for laughs, though the protagonist's repetition
complex and easily wounded pride anticipate the masochistic streaks of
James Stewart's characters in Hitchcock's later films. Comic actor
Gordon Harker introduces a welcome note of cynicism as the cranky
farmhand dubious of his master's romantic turn.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Saturday, January 25, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:45

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