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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★★

  "Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye."

  don't believe your own press.

  the deep-focus shot in which montgomery clift first sees elizabeth taylor is pretty much the movies, more or less. not that i feel compelled to get it tattooed on the side of my shaved head, or anything.

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  Review by noen ★★★★ 9

  It’s evident that Clift and Elizabeth were soulmates from the beginning. In this film, you can see how their natural chemistry shines through each scene together and, later, when Clift’s career went through a difficult period, Elizabeth Taylor’s unwavering support was truly extraordinary and very rare in the industry. She literally saved his life once and they exemplify the essence of platonic love.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★★ 6

  wow this is good

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★★½ 8

  the same old story: i meet a man. he seems really nice. we go on dates. he makes me feel pretty. he makes me feel alive. he tells me he will be able to find fulfillment with me. he gets what he needs from me. everything starts to fall apart. i don't know where he goes. i don't know what he is doing. i realize i don't know where he comes from really or how to verify what he has told me about himself. i start to worry. the more nights he doesn't come back the more i think maybe i won't ever see him again. secretly that is what i want. i know it is better that way but…

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  Review by cassandra ★★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The moment where Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift are confessing their love to each other while dancing cheek to cheek among her society friends and she suddenly remembers they’re in public and she gasps, says “are they watching us?” and runs out the back door with him... CINEMA.

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  Review by 𝙿𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝙶𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚗 | 🇮🇹 ★★★★★ 8

  «The greatest movie about America ever made» wrote Charlie Chaplin about A Place in the Sun. The story is that of George Eastman, a young provincial who moves to the city to climb to success. He believes he did it when he conquered the love of a young heiress. Unfortunately he already has a relationship with a working-class woman who expects a son from him and refuses to leave him.

  George Stevens' masterpiece - a revolutionary film at its time, winner of 6 Oscar awards - is a mixture of different genres: social drama, but also sentimental film, legal thriller and noir. The camera is used in an innovative way: sometimes it remains distant, impartial observer, almost absent. These shots…

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  Review by Kayla ★★★½ 1

  men are literally terrifying what the fuck

  (new list)

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  Review by HKFanatic ★★★★★

  There's a scene in "A Place in the Sun" when Elizabeth Taylor is about to declare her deepest feelings to a man at a crowded party and she stops and looks (very nearly at us, the viewer) and cries, "Are they watching us?!" before ushering her lover away to a secluded balcony. Despite her beauty and charm, love continues to elude Taylor...just like us schmucks in the audience. It's a moment befitting her character, a young socialite who winds up in all the papers, but also speaks to Taylor the star, hounded her whole life by flash photography and the salacious appetite of the public. It's a moment I found terribly moving—I found the whole film terribly moving.

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  Review by saint judas fonda ★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Don’t have sex or you will get pregnant and die.

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★ 4

  the only American Tragedy here is that Montgomery Clift can't keep it in his pants or take responsibility for his emotions

  also maybe something about capitalism and thrusting a naive prole into bourgeois society, but the romance is always played as the True Motivation

  i dunno, it's very pretty and all, but i don't quite get it

  film noir

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  Review by Bre 4

  The acting Montgomery Clift could do with his eyes alone is astounding. You could watch just his eyes and know exactly what is going on, it really is like watching the sadness of the world pass through them. Even when the camera is not fixed on his face, he is unbelievably expressive even just through his body language and movement. Clift is an especially adept actor and I love how he always seems unsure of his own emotions and consequently surprised by the depth of them. It is an intensely emotional experience watching him experience emotions and try to cope with them, and I struggle to think of another actor who really evokes emotion that deeply in me. I haven't…

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  Review by Sam ★★★★ 8

  Pure, melodramatic gold. An emotional whirlwind that flies above expectations and never ceases to provide dramatic character arcs and flawless portrayals of toxic masculinity, relationship difficulties and splitting one’s life into two unequal and impossible sections. George Stevens drives such a fearless and lively story with everlasting depth and is able to allow many moments to breathe and not get ahead of themselves. It’s a tale on deception and how it ultimately leads to heartbreak when it initially appears as graceful trickery. 

  This was incredibly close to being a film that holds about perfection but the fact that the third act turned into an average courtroom drama holds it back. What should’ve been a few minutes was made into 25 and threw off the immaculate pacing that the film had going for it.