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Word: myrtile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen plays; unfortunately, it is also more literary. Charlotte, represented as a cute little turkey, is the most fictional creature in the film; she also happens to be the most lively and convincing character. Branwell, theatrical as he is, does have his moments of authentic, bitter agony. Odette Myrtil has very little to do as a Brussels schoolmistress, but she does it so well that for a little while the whole film looks intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general shallowness of feeling, thought and characterization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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