THE BLUE ANGEL at 90 and the Iconography of Marlene Dietrich

ByNicole
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The start of the 2020s is the ideal opportunity to revisit the iconic cinema of Weimar Germany. These inter-war pieces tended to capture the devastation and despair lying just under the surface of a brave new world. Decadence heralded the end of former sexual mores, and yet this freedom and eroticism often enhanced the feeling that the world was crumbling around every carefree participant.

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