Simply A Masterpiece

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Charles Boyer is deliciously creepy and evil in this psychological thriller from 1944, and Ingrid Bergman plays the part of his young wife well, slowly tricked into believing she's losing her mind. Joseph Cotten is her knight in shining armor, and Angela Lansbury makes the most of a small part in her very first film role at the age of 18, as the somewhat flirtatious young maid in the house, and we wonder if she has a role in the scheming that's going on. I loved how Director George Cukor made the film as claustrophobic as Bergman feels herself, by keeping most of the scenes indoor amidst dark lighting and shadows, and outdoor scenes enveloped in London fog. It's quite atmospheric. The movie seems to lack tension towards the middle, when everyone knows what's going on - what Boyer is doing and how he is doing it (which is a bit of a weakness) – but it ends very well, with some scenes that may have you on the edge of your seat.

GASLIGHT characterized by a great atmosphere, set design and costumes. The film is a good combination of classic paranoid drama and detective stories. Restless atmosphere brings some very exciting and disturbing sequences. The fragile and distraught women versus dominant and wicked husband are the right combination for a good melodrama.Despite the gloomy atmosphere, it is exciting to see how the two main protagonists go crazy in their own ways. One character (Boyer) is full of hypnotic malice and impatience, while another character (Bergman) drowning in pain, weakness and lack of self-confidence. Maybe for my taste too dramatically and inconsistent, but I share conclusion that their performance is good.The strongest argument of this film is the concept of confinement. The level of horror, frustration, claustrophobia, fear, confusion is quite low. The story is confusing and undeveloped. The peak is more or less expected. Confrontation at the end is pretty good.

a film about vulnerability, past and love. all in the shadow of the fear. remarkable performances. mark of a great director who defines, with precise grace, atmosphere from the first scene. a film about different forms of cruelty. happy meeting of two actors with the science to explore each aspect of the potential of roles. and, I admit, in few senses, the film of Angela Lansburry who, in a small role, does an admirable job. one of films who seems be perfect. for the dialogues and for the use of light. for the wise manner to use the rules of thriller. for the music. and for the analysis of the purpose of charming Gregory Anton. short, a film who must see. again and again. for the special art who has it as beautiful example.

George Cukor's Gaslight is a movie very similar to the many Alfred Hitchcock movies that I saw, but this movie is less in depth when it comes to the psychological thriller part but it still had a superb screenplay. The movie stars Charles Boyer in a terrific performance as Greg Anton a man who comes to a new house with his new wife Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman in an Oscar winning performance)after her aunt gets murdered many years earlier, and then he keeps some jewels a secret and convince his wife that she is ill and out of her mind just to make her mad without even realizing it, then later on in the movie a detective named Brian Cameron (played by Joseph Cotten) who comes into the home to ask her some questions, and then find out Greg's little shortcut from upstairs in the attic back into their residence. Cukor's film tries to convince grown ups to watch out for who you marry because you may not know the way that he/she will treat you during the time course of the marriage.