1928 · silent · drama
Easy Virtue
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock1h 10m1928
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Our read: Easy Virtue (1928) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded silent · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured silent / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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