Silent Sundays FOOLISH WIVES (pg)

KEW BRiDGE kinema at the musical museum

an exciting new project featuring regular silent cinema screening with live musical accompaniment on the Wurlitzer by our own Donald Mackenzie

FOOLISH WIVES (pg)

Described “as artistically brilliant as it is gleefully perverse”, ‘Foolish Wives’ is Erich von Stroheim’s epic-scale account of an American diplomat’s wife (Mrs. Dupont) who falls under the spell of a phoney Russian Count (von Stroheim). It is the first film that cost $1-million to make and the result is a “Grimm’s fairy-tale-romance” that is no less fascinating today than it was in 1922.