{"id":1503,"date":"2006-09-27T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2021-01-25T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T04:38:51","slug":"woman-of-paris-a-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Woman of Paris, A (1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Get that woman out of this house!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Poster-136x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Poster-136x300.jpg 136w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Poster-58x128.jpg 58w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Poster.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nBelieving she has been jilted by her fiance (Carl Miller), a young woman (Edna Purviance) moves to Paris and becomes the mistress of wealthy playboy Pierre Revel (Adolph Menjou). When she runs into her fiance a year later, she must decide whether to leave her life of comfort with Revel for a chance at marital bliss &#8212; <em>if <\/em> she can overcome her reputation as a &#8220;kept woman&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adolph Menjou Films<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Charlie Chaplin Films<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Morality Police<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Star-Crossed Lovers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis silent melodrama is primarily of interest for its status as Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s first directorial effort without his presence as the Little Tramp. It was panned by audiences at the time, shelved for fifty years, and finally restored in the 1970s, to critical acclaim. Peary is among the movie&#8217;s admirers, noting that it is &#8220;the rare silent film to explore the psychological reasons characters act as they do&#8221; and the &#8220;rare Chaplin film in which the lead female character is treated with sympathy rather than idealized.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-1024x762.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-1024x762.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-768x571.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie-363x270.png 363w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Marie.png 1233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite these important breakthroughs, however, the story in <em>A Woman of Paris<\/em> remains overly melodramatic, and, quite simply, not all that engaging. I couldn&#8217;t muster much interest in what happens to the lovers, and found the ending both abrupt and sappy. The best aspect of the film by far is Adolph Menjou, who steals nearly every scene he&#8217;s in, and shows genuine screen charisma.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powell-pressburger.org\/Reviews\/Micky\/WomanOfParis.html\">here<\/a> to read a 1977 interview with director Michael Powell, in which he reminisces about watching <em>A Woman of Paris<\/em> as an impressionable young 18-year-old: &#8220;Nobody had ever really done any realistic films at all before, it was all make-believe, you know, and emotions were make-believe, as well as the people&#8230; Suddenly, here was a grown-up film, with people behaving as they do in life, and scenes treated with an enormous sophistication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adolphe Menjou&#8217;s sparkling performance as Pierre Revel, a &#8220;charming cad&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Purviance.png 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some outrageous Parisian party scenes &#8212; including one where a &#8220;mummified&#8221; woman unspools her wrapping onto a fellow partier, and ends up naked (!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-1024x746.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy-371x270.png 371w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/Woman-of-Paris-Mummy.png 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes. It holds a special place in cinematic history, and should be of interest to film fanatics.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0014624\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altfg.com\/film\/a-woman-of-paris\/\">Alt Film Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get that woman out of this house!&#8221; Synopsis: Believing she has been jilted by her fiance (Carl Miller), a young woman (Edna Purviance) moves to Paris and becomes the mistress of wealthy playboy Pierre Revel (Adolph Menjou). When she runs into her fiance a year later, she must decide whether to leave her life of comfort with Revel for a chance at marital bliss &#8212; if she can overcome her reputation as a &#8220;kept woman&#8221;. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1503\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66022,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/66022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}