Time & Location
24 Jul 2024, 18:30 – 22:30
Watershed, Bristol, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, UK
About the Event
Are you decent?’
A wave of hair as Rita Hayworth straightens up, eyes widening towards just off-camera, as she sultrily asks; ‘me?’. That was all that was needed to put Hayworth’s name in movie stardom forever. A then-up-and-coming star, Gilda did more than any other role to solidify Hayworth as a smouldering femme fatale of the noir genre. Here, she and co-star Glenn Ford find themselves locked in a twisty tale as two ex-pats in Buenos Aires caught up in corruption, lust and organised crime.
As the titular character, she’s introduced to Ford’s Johnny Farrell, a casino manager, by her new husband, casino owner Mundson (George Macready). Unbeknownst to Mundson, the two already know each other as former lovers! With shady goings on at the casino, many of them way beyond Farrell’s pay-grade, events start to come to a head.
Directed by Charles Vidor, Gilda's sumptuous visuals and Hollywood classicism…