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Seventh Heaven
Frank Borzage 1927
Starring Charles Farrel and Jane Gaynor, this film won 3 Oscars in the first year of the Academy Awards and spawned a hit tune ‘ My Diane’ The film contains a wonderfully sustained depiction of a developing love affair between a street washer and a rejected sister thrown onto the streets and offered her first real home by Chico the street washer. Sent away to war, Chico makes Diane promise to think of him at 11.00 am each day. Told that Chico has been killed, she initially despairs, but the film ends with a bizarre twist. (120 minutes)
Score by Paul Robinson commissioned by the ‘Giornate del Cinema Muto’ Pordenone Italy. 16mm/35mm.
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