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By Jean-François T (27) on 11 Oct 2006

This movie will make you cry like you never cried before. One of the most touching movies of all time…

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By Tawanda C (3) on 09 Oct 2006

Powerful movie of a girl denying her race to fit in with the whites. Something that we still deal with today…

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By Barbara H (125) on 21 Sep 2006

A truly great film to watch. Superb acting by all especially the poor maid and her mixed race daughter (surrounding status and race)…

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By Denise L (45) on 06 Sep 2006

Un film que j'ai beaucoup pleuré quand j'étais toute petite…

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By Mary G (167) on 25 May 2006

Can't decide which I like better-So sad and true of things like 'passing' that happened…

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By T L (113) on 14 May 2006

LESSONED LEARNED THE TRUTH WILL EVENTUALLY COME OUT…

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By Mary H (437) on 13 Mar 2006

You should watch this alone. It makes you do the ugly cry…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

Forget those who decry the '50s Hollywood melodrama; it is through the conventions of that hyper-emotional genre that Sirk is able to make…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Jun 2005

Douglas Sirk's last Hollywood film is the jewel in his crown, a visually audacious, powerfully acted melodrama, with Lana Turner and Juanita…

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By Jesse L (481) on 01 Aug 2004

(DVD) (First Viewing, 4th Sirk film) Once again, Douglas Sirk piles on the melodrama and hysterics to explore a serious social issue…

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By Repping H (5) on 13 Nov 2003

How do you explain to your child that you were born to be hurt? I don't think I've seen a racism is bad picture quite like this one…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Jul 2003

The film isn’t only revolutionary for its aesthetic rigorousness but its rare fascination with white America’s difficulty relating to people…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 May 2003

Fifty-six years after it opened, Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life remains the apotheosis of Hollywood melodrama — as Sirk’s final film,…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Mar 2003

The film is a biting critique of American race relations in the Fifties and a complex study in contrasts and paradoxes…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 29 Jul 2002

Trashy remake of John M. Stahl's 1934 classic…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

The secret of Sirk's double appeal is a broadly melodramatic plotline, played with perfect conviction yet constantly criticized and challenged…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 23 Sep 1983

By way of contrast, Imitation of Life and its predecessors really poked their noses into the ratty, fetid spaces behind the plush curtains…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Jul 1983

Laugh if you want at Imitation of Life or any of Sirk’s primal cinematic operas…

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By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 02 Oct 1978

The film is a biting critique of American race relations in the Fifties and a complex study in contrasts and paradoxes…

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By George Bourke (1) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 15 Dec 1972

This modernized remake of Miss Hurst's frankly lachrymose tale is much the same as its soggy predecessor…

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