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As I'm (as always) tired, I just copied and pasted some notes I wrote while watching the Molander-Bergman version of A Woman's Face (1938).

• Shadows!


• Revelation via mirror. I like it.


• Hollywood makeup artists are wimps, Bergman's makeup here is great actually.


• One of Anna's goons is a fruity monocled man and I thought it was Torsten gdjahnsha


• Torsten is a wimp and is pulled into the den.


• Case and point: idiot just insulted Anna. I miss my manipulative, big-headed nightmare, but Anna is much different too, maybe it works??


• Bergman's Anna still hides her face, but doesn't have as much qualms with showing it as Crawford's. I think it's because she's all ruthlessness, without a single drop of vulnerability. I'm not really complaining, again, it works.


• Lord, the book pics are upsetting. They're WWI soldiers.


• Dialogue can be a bit heavy-handed, but Ingrid Bergman is gooood.


• Immediately after surgery Anna gets a heart. Godammit. I liked the slow change of the remake better.


• So many close-ups <3


• Wait a minute, it's the same scene! The reveal bit is the same in both films, almost shot for shot! Cukooooooor!


• Torsten continues to be clueless and is not in on the Anna Holm/Anna Paulson thing until the last minute lol


• And lol she didn't know she was set out to kill a child


• Uncle Harald? Hello? I guess this is Segert's other half.


• The banter between the consul and the maid is great, I love them.


• Shadows! Part 2



• Lars-Erik's parents mentioned.


• London mentioned.


• Okay, now that Torsten comes to Forsa we see the sliminess. Ooooh.


• Everyone blackmails everyone.


• The consul ships Anna/Harald. Tbf he doesn't get on my nervers as much Segert.


• No attic scene equivalent, but sleigh ride incoming.


• Harald is at the hospital, he fell off!


• Holy shit, "I'm glad I was ugly, it saved me from a far worse fate." Things the Hays' Code aould never allow to be said.


• She's leaving! She's leaving everyone (including Harald) behind. That's what I wanted to happen since January last year, when I first joined the Anna Holm Appreciators Club.


• I liked it, but you know for which version my heart sings :D