A very powerful moment when seen in a good print on a big screen.. That first glance — sleepy, boredom mixed with slight disgust followed by that knowing look that´s calculating, superior, sexually sure: She´s got Joseph Cotten´s number, she´s got him fooled and she certainly needs no help in handling him.
On a good print, her lips look lacquered into enamelled perfection: artificial armour, war paint of a colour and with a gloss nowhere found in nature but totally descriptive and evocative of 50s America.
But who´s fighting whom and what for? A fantastic moment in a great film.
José Arroyo
