About Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder's classic noir about an aspiring screenwriter and a faded movie star.
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About the film
Desperate for cash, screenwriter Joe Gillis has a chance meeting with a faded silent film star. Norma Desmond lives in her crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion with only her butler to keep her company. She has become a recluse convinced that the outside world is clamouring for her dramatic return. Enticing him with the prospect of script work she puts him up in her mansion and he becomes ever more involved and entangled in her life.
BBFC Insight: suicide references
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The finest movie ever made about the narcissistic hellhole that is Hollywood.
This is an unmissable commentary on Hollywood's rejection of its silent past.
