To Each His Own
PG
Why watch?
“Olivia de Havilland gives an utterly heart-wrenching performance, packed with emotional depth and power. I love it for its frank, compassionate, and profoundly moving portrait of maternal love and sacrifice. A quintessential example of the 1940s melodrama, it deserves to be far better known.”
Alice Miller,
De Havilland plays Jody Norris, a small-town girl who gives birth to an illegitimate son after a brief passionate affair with a dashing young fighter pilot. After a scheme to adopt her son goes awry, she spends her life loving him from afar. Directed by Mitchell Leisen with a deft, humanist touch, the film transforms what could have been a sentimental ‘women’s weepie’ into an eloquent, emotionally rich story of love, resilience, and the sacrifices women are asked to make.
Showing as part of our season Too Much: Melodrama on Film - supported by the BFI and Film Hub North.
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Hallmark... In a Day
12A
Presented by Darragh Amelia & Guilt-Free Pleasures