Knight Without Armour
by Jacques Feyder

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Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: A Dream Of Romance
Summary: 4 Stars

Like all well-made black and white films, KNIGHT has the feeling of a dream, and that feeling is sustained throughout with the most amazing display of understated cinematic skill. The scenario: A beautiful woman living in a cocoon of wealth and privilege, is swept away in the middle of the night. Led and shielded by a handsome stranger, she finds her way to political and emotional freedom, by crossing a final border, and by falling in love with her non-aristocratic guardian and savior. She becoemes a 'real' woman. This is fairly pure Joseph Campbell with a bit of Cocteau and Jung thrown in for good measur. If it is not bluntly erotic enough for our time, perhaps, or for a somewhat earlier time -- think of Dr. Zivago -- it brings us back to a frame of mind that died with the First World War, when what attracted men and women to one another, had to do with character; when admiration combined with sex to form Adoration. It was a time of ideals. Dietrich's exceptional beauty in this film, is more than merely the beauty of an actress. Here, it becomes symbolic of all that was beautiful in Aristocratic Russia before the Revolution. She becomes the embodiment of some a rare and exquisite treasure very much like a Feberge jewel; something fragile, unique, astonishing. She looks the way Rachmaninoff sounds.

This is a cinematic experience of exceptional beauty; much like a fine eau de parfum; Chanel's Russian Leather, perhaps.

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