Review of Winter Meeting (1948) by Monsieur R — 13 Jan 2010

This is definately one of the better Bette Davis movies I've seen. Bette delivers (as always) a very professional performance as a very bright poet, Susan Grieve that doesn't look particularly good (but in my eyes, Bette always looks gorgeous of course) but still manages to swipe the handsome warveteran Slick Novak (Jim Davis) from his beautiful date (Janis Paige). In Susan apartment we very soon get the impression that Susan either was very close to her father as for a big picture of him on her chest of drawers, but nothing of her mother, whom she refuses to talk about.

They soon fall in love and Susan finally feels ready to take Slick to her childhood house, where lots of painfull memories are left.

Slick convinces Susan to tell him all her painfull memories that are stucked in her mind, and then we got to know that Susan hated her mother passionately, and blamed her for being the cause that her father went insane and ultimately died, cause she never cared for either Susan or Susan's father and left him with some other guy.

To Susan's suprise Slick didn't take Susan's side, but gently asked her why she couldn't forgive her mother.

The film took an interesting turn, and Slick told her later that he had always wanted to be a priest.

A really good movie, with a strong ending. I certainly recommend this to all the Bette Davis-fans like me, out there!