Because a producer is eager to resurrect his career, he attempts to lure a beautiful actress out out seclusion to help him in his new project. Does she agree with his proposal?
May 26, 1911 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France
25 June 1937, Berchem, Flanders, Belgium
1 October 1947, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
28 December 1925, Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
11 March 1916, Mainz, Germany
12 March 1932, Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
17 April 1921, Atchison, Kansas, USA
17 April 1917, Atchison, Kansas, USA
17 April 1918, O'Fallon, Illinois, USA
22 November 1951, Cleburne, Texas, USA
11 June 1930, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
13 January 1930, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
1 August 1920, Kerassus, Greece
24 June 1906, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
29 August 1942, Berlin, Germany
27 March 1942, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
16 May 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
20 October 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 January 1945, Basel, Switzerland
8 September 1930, Zurich, Switzerland
5 February 1951, Zürich, Switzerland
November 10, 2014
There's a lot of awkwardness to Fedora, from a sluggish pace to an awful bit of last-minute overdubbing that mars two performances, but there's a lot of fascination in it.
August 14, 2007
The deliberate and sometimes dismaying anachronisms are signs of a deep, unshakable commitment to a personal aesthetic -- a commitment that is sometimes more moving than anything in the film itself.
January 26, 2006
A shamefully underrated film, Fedora is Wilder's testament and one of the most sublime achievements of the '70s.
September 05, 2014
This one seethes with authentic nostalgia; Wilder's attempt not merely to eulogize earlier styles but to revive them feels somewhat embalmed.
October 23, 2004
Trust Wilder to know what he's doing, even during the deliberate clichés. See it like that, and I bet you'll like it. See it with a straight face, and you'll think it's boring and obvious.
February 06, 2010
Gallant Hollywood-Babylon concerto
August 14, 2007
Defiantly and proudly old-fashioned both in style and content, weaving an (intentionally) campy melodrama about the mysterious suicide of a faded movie queen into a spellbinding meditation on cinema and the price of manufactured illusions.
September 02, 2014
The offhand jabs at the dissolution of orthodox craftsmanship in 1970s cinema are overwhelmed by a deeper core of autocritique played out in the film's downward trajectory.
September 03, 2014
This wearying nostalgia for golden-age moviemaking aside, Fedora exposes, through a major plot twist I won't give away, the off-screen pathologies that constitute the nightmares of the dream factory.
March 17, 2007
Brilliant homage to a bygone age of glamor.
September 02, 2014
Wilder may have been a genius, but not everything a genius does is a work of genius. Fedora is a curiosity, not a lost masterpiece.
January 01, 2000
Fedora is old-fashioned with a vengeance, a proud, passionate remembrance of the way movies used to be, and a bitter smile at what they have become.
