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Fedora

1978

Billy Wilder

William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer ...

7.0

4,442

Mystery. Drama Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler. In flashbacks, the producer recalls his efforts to coax aging movie queen Fedora out of retirement, while attending her funeral. Not long before, he had tried to penetrate the phalanx of functionaries who protected the star at the Greek island villa of her friend, the Countess Sobryanski without ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Village Voice	"Wilder may have been a genius, but not everything a genius does is a work of genius. Fedora is a curiosity, not a lost masterpiece."	NEU
United States	Time Out	"Fedora is Wilder's testament and one of the most sublime achievements of the '70s."	POS

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