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Imitation of Life (VHS, 1992)
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Leading Role: John Gavin,Juanita Moore,Lana Turner,Sandra Dee,Susan Kohner
Director: Douglas Sirk
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Jan 1992
Format: VHS
UPC: 096898015233
Product ID: EPID3093959
Description: In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles ...
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| Movie Description In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax. In a role that closely resembles and perhaps parodies her own life, Lana Turner plays Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and single mother who meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black and similarly single and struggling mother. When they move in together, Annie assumes the role of domestic servant and the two women struggle together to raise their two daughters. Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner), favors her father whose skin tone resembles her own extremely light skin, and she slowly comes to resent her mother's black identity. Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity. As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household. With a deft mixture of icy detachment and morose sentimentality rendered through a transcendent art direction, Sirk leads the film onto an inimitable crescendo of highly adorned emotion and tragedy.
Notes "Imitation of Life" was director Douglas Sirk's last feature film. The film was a remake of the 1934 version. Editorial Reviews Entertainment Weekly - Tim Purtell (01/24/2003) USA Today - Peter Johnson (02/10/2004) New York Times - Dave Kehr (02/05/2008) | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||
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