Portrait In Black - Michael Gordon (1960)
Wall to wall melodramatic cliche, scenery chewing leads with almost zero on screen chemistry.
The appearance of the asiatic looking maid, who played no significant part in the narrative, was accompanied each time by daft Japanese sounding music. Although it has similar visual flourishes to Douglas Sirk, it just proves how great he was and how poor this director is.
For all that I quite enjoyed it, as an Airplane type comedy.
I like All That Money Can Buy & The Devil & Daniel Webster and have seen them both several times.
Diva didn't do anything for me. Like Le Plaisir very much.
One of the pleasures of digital recordings is the freedom to stop the film and have doze. I do it quite often.