The Devil is a Woman

November 4, 2011

6:30 P.M.

One of the most sophisticated films in the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich canon, The Devil is a Woman is an alluring romance about a cold-hearted temptress who destroys the lives of two best friends (Cesar Romero and Lionel Atwill). The plot is set in Carnival week in the port town of Seville during the Spanish Revolution. The script was written by John Dos Passos and the same source material was used as the inspiration for Luis Bufiuel's That Obscure Object of Desire.