Genuine

1920
1h 28m

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Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.

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5.9/10

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Trivia
A 43-minute condensation of this silent film can be found as an Extra Feature on the Kino Video DVD of Le Cabinet du docteur Caligari (1920). A full-length version is stored at the Munich City Film Museum archive in Germany. A VHS transfer of a full length version (with French intertitles) exists. A copy can be found on YouTube.

Quotes
Percy Melo: Dead! She is dead!

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)

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3/10

A curiosity, for Expressionism completists only

Robert Wiene repeats the techniques he used in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" with far less success in "Genuine". His looming architectures and broad swaths of darkness are glaringly at odds with the utterly ridiculous story of the seductress-priestess-wild girl brought to unsuspecting Europe. There are some striking visual effects, such as the jungle of branches where Genuine climbs up and up to escape from her prison, but they don't add up to anything. (I should note that only fragments, adding up to about a half hour, survive of this movie; but I suspect that the parts I didn't see wouldn't have added any deeper meaning.)