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Discuss the importance of posture and gesture for the performer in relation to Greta Garbo from Camille.”
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FI303 Introduction to Narrative Cinema 2004/2005 "Discuss the importance of posture and gesture for the performer in relation to Greta Garbo from Camille." Camille, created in 1936, is universally acknowledged as one of the most romantically atmospheric productions of al time. The film begins with the scene being set as we are shown "the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatres, balls and gambling clubs, where the code was discretion - - but the game was romance. This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksand's of popularity - - Marguerite Gautier, who brightened her wit with champagne - and sometimes her eyes with tears." "Camille" tells the story of a beautiful but fatefully ill French courtesan named Marguerite Gautier and her love affair with the handsome young Armand Duval in 1840's Paris. Greta Garbo gives a...
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