Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
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 sad demented recluse convinced that the outside world is clamoring 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.
Rowan Krzysiak reviewedFebruary 13, 2025
There's real quality there of course but the issue for me was that it was all a bit boring and one-note.