cASABLANCA
Type: romantic-interventionist masterpiece
Director: Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, SZ Sakall
The love triangle and the most famous club in the history of cinema, in a film that is now a legend beyond any aesthetic consideration. As Umberto Eco wrote, «when all the archetypes break in without decency, Homeric depths are reached. Two clichés make you laugh, one hundred move you». And in Casablanca, that Warner has deservedly rereleased to celebrate its first eighty yearsThere are thousands of clichés.
Starting with «Play it again Sam“, the jokes abound (Bogart to the woman who asks him where he was the night before replies “It’s been a long time, I don’t remember” and when she insists on understanding if they will see each other that evening, he replies “I never make plans like that in advance”), all functional to convince the Americans that it was right to side with France and Great Britain to fight against Nazi-fascism and Japan.
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca” (photo Contrasto).
And in the meantime, be fascinated by the love story between Bogart and Bergman and find out in the end what choice he will make: whether to fly away with her (who has never forgotten their love) or to help her revived husband continue the resistance struggle. To be seen, reviewed and reviewed again, because this is the cinema that knows how to make us dream.
For those who want to hear their heart beat in front of the screen.
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