A Film A Week

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Peter Ibbetson
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Peter Ibbetson

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Aug 23, 2024
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A friend told me I’d like Peter Ibbetson, so I got to it—found a download that wasn’t absolutely atrocious—and watched this weird ass movie from the early studio system days.

I love movies that seem like one thing and then become something else. Most of Ibbetson plays like a Victorian melodrama. A young boy (Pierre/Peter) and girl (Mary) are separated i…

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