City Girl (1930) :
Brief Review -
Murnau's top class high end drama to keep City Girl's Dignity Alive. Murnau is in different league altogether with any Love-story, affection sort of elements and here's another solid example of it. City Girl is a very early poignant take on City Girl's preassumed bad image by countryside people. Like other Murnau's other Flicks this one also has been framed in dramatic posture and every element is kept is in positive manners. While Sunrise (1927) was about lost husband finding true love of his life, City Girl is about an underestimated husband who learns to fight for his wife. A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country. She wishes to face good days but instead comes across worse days she couldn't have even imagined. A sweet Romance vanishes after couple of misunderstandings and then dignity of the woman comes at stake. She has to choose between her dignity and husband, what does she chooses? Find out all in the film. I am not quite sure about the predictability of the climax which seemed pretty okay as i am seeing it in 2021 but i guess it might have amazing for 1930s. Mary Duncan totally lives the character of the Girl in the film. Watch out for the expression she gives in Cafe scenes and the climax scenes. Farrell and Torrence makes a great pair of repulsive yet loved Son-Father whereas supporting cast in the workers roles is terrific in all scenes. Cinematography is perfect from City towers to countryside farms. City Girl has a good writing and its screenplay too fits in right size with gripping runtime of 98 minutes. Murnau doesn't hit the Masterpiece Level like Sunrise and his German Classics with this one but goes very close to it. Overall, City Girl is another fabulous film in F. W. Murnau's remarkable filmography because even his lowest is better than other directors high level.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest
Murnau's top class high end drama to keep City Girl's Dignity Alive. Murnau is in different league altogether with any Love-story, affection sort of elements and here's another solid example of it. City Girl is a very early poignant take on City Girl's preassumed bad image by countryside people. Like other Murnau's other Flicks this one also has been framed in dramatic posture and every element is kept is in positive manners. While Sunrise (1927) was about lost husband finding true love of his life, City Girl is about an underestimated husband who learns to fight for his wife. A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country. She wishes to face good days but instead comes across worse days she couldn't have even imagined. A sweet Romance vanishes after couple of misunderstandings and then dignity of the woman comes at stake. She has to choose between her dignity and husband, what does she chooses? Find out all in the film. I am not quite sure about the predictability of the climax which seemed pretty okay as i am seeing it in 2021 but i guess it might have amazing for 1930s. Mary Duncan totally lives the character of the Girl in the film. Watch out for the expression she gives in Cafe scenes and the climax scenes. Farrell and Torrence makes a great pair of repulsive yet loved Son-Father whereas supporting cast in the workers roles is terrific in all scenes. Cinematography is perfect from City towers to countryside farms. City Girl has a good writing and its screenplay too fits in right size with gripping runtime of 98 minutes. Murnau doesn't hit the Masterpiece Level like Sunrise and his German Classics with this one but goes very close to it. Overall, City Girl is another fabulous film in F. W. Murnau's remarkable filmography because even his lowest is better than other directors high level.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest