Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

PWNYCNY This movie is a toned-down adaptation of the play by Eugene O'Neill. The main problem with the movie is the portrayal of Anna Christie. In the play, Anna Christie is a whore. She is explicitly described as being as such. This point is crucial to the story. Yet, when Greta Garbo enters the movie, her attire is anything but garish. She simply does not look like a hard-bitten street-walker. As for Greta Garbo, she is absolutely beautiful. She is the star of the movie. She is exquisite and her performance is superb. Marie Dressler's performance is wonderful too. As far the male actors, their acting is stagy and hammy. This movie is definitely dominated by the female performers and it is because of them that this movie is watchable. Nevertheless, by toning down the dialogue, the movie loses the dramatic power of the play, and although the movie is good, if it had stayed true to the original story, it could have been great.

Michael_Elliott Anna Christie (1930) *** 1/2 (out of 4) A former prostitute (Greta Garbo) goes to see her father (Hans Junkermann) for the first time in fifteen years so she can escape her past but she ends up falling in love with a sailor (Theo Shall) who isn't aware of her secret. While I haven't seen the American version, which was filmed at the same time, I have a hard time believing the subject matter would be treated more seriously or openly as what's on display here. The only problem I had with the film is that some of the direction is weak in terms of the camera just standing still and not adding too much to the film. Other than that this is a very open and hard hitting little love story that works wonders and packs a terrific punch due to the three leads performances. Garbo brings her typical beauty to the screen and perfectly captures her character's tortured soul. The love scenes with Shall are very good and you can't help but cheer for things to work out well.

romdal The first sound movie Greta Garbo did is an adaptation of an Eugene O'Neill play, and it shows. Many scenes are way too long, especially in the beginning and end. Greta Garbo only appears after half an hour of drunken dialog, but a sparkling entrance it is, as she stands in the doorway of a bar, slowly enters and sits down – you can imagine audiences awaiting her first spoken line. She is the prodigal daughter returning to her sailor father's port. She does not know that he is a drunk, and he does not know that she has been a fallen woman. They finally meet, he takes her in, and she sails with him on his barge, where destiny takes another turn when a love interest comes aboard. Garbo is simply fantastic here, so confident, so full of life and pain. When you know it, it is easily seen that some theatricals from her silent career linger on, and she does not do much with her voice, but her face tells a million stories. Just the scene where she sees her father for the first time and tries to hide her disappointment is unbelievably good. The movie renders a good environment of the harbor and the barge, altogether a pleasant experience, but you can go boil a pot of tea once in every scene, they're that long!

didi-5 'Anne Christie' was Garbo's 14th film and the first in which her husky Swedish voice was heard. She plays the lead character, Anna, who has struggled with being abandoned by her father Chris (a drunken barge owner played by George F Marion), and with the misfortune of the life she has has to lead to keep her head above water.Meeting Irish Matt (Charles Bickford) may mark the turning point for her ... or does it? Garbo looks and sounds great in this drama which, although looking rather clunky and moving at a slow pace, still manages to interest and engage an audience nearly 80 years later. Marie Dressler makes an impact in the role which gave her a second flush of movie success in films such as Min and Bill, Dinner at Eight, and Emma; while Marion and Bickford are more than adequate.An interesting slice of movie history. Garbo would do better talkies in the years following, but 'Anna Christie' will always be remembered for the first time she talked on screen.