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Gilda

PG
Charles Vidor, 110 mins, USA, 1946, DCP, B&W. Courtesy: Park Circus.

Gilda

Rita Hayworth was never more ravishing on screen than in Gilda, the 1946 Hollywood classic screening in a strictly limited run in a new digital restoration.

Hayworth, poured into a black satin sheath dress, casually loses a glove as she seductively coos Put the Blame on Mame, an iconic song and dance number set in a (studio-built) Buenos Aires nightclub that still dazzles for sheer magnetism.

Glenn Ford and George Macready play the suitors with whom Gilda forms a complicated love triangle (with other contenders skulking hopefully around the trio's orbit). Gilda herself is an atypical femme fatale; desirable, wilful and capricious in spades, but at heart a woman who is made to suffer for her unspoken loyalty to the one man she truly loves.

Screening exclusively at ACMI.