The Oscar-winning film is ripe for a roasting thanks to its tone-deaf treatment of race relations. But, asks our chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey, has anything really changed?
Prestige counts at the Oscars. That is why a stodgy literary biopic like The Life of Emile Zola somehow won the main award at the 1937 Oscars. It’s a solid and worthy piece of work, with a grandstanding performance from Paul Muni as the campaigning French novelist. The idea, though, that it is one of the “few truly great pictures of all time”, as its own publicity suggested, is clearly idiotic.
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