Broken Lullaby

It’s interesting when a filmmaker with a very distinct milieu breaks from it completely and still succeeds. Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch reminds me of how I reacted to Martin Scorsese‘s The Age of Innocence. Lubitsch obviously had done his share of drama especially in Germany, but they were larger in scale and more melodramatic in tone. This is a much more accomplished work than anything like Anna Boleyn or Sumurun, and it’s because the film has both much better focus on the core charact...