Sunset Boulevard
1950 | Noir | USA | Directed by Billy Wilder
Overview
A dead narrator floats face down in a pool and narrates. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a silent star rotting in a mansion with her butler and her delusions, ready for her closeup. Hollywood devoured its own on screen with unprecedented cruelty. The finest film about films, and about what fame does to people.
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