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In response to
"What's "The Shop Around The Corner"? I'm only seeing a movie from the 1940s. "
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Krusty
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AVClub tricked me; it is the 1940s movie
Posted by
Beaker (aka Anniebecca)
Nov 23 '21, 05:23
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Season’s Streaming
The Shop Around the Corner (HBO Max): Have you seen You’ve Got Mail too many times? Maybe to the point where you’re like, on the one hand, closing the shop led Meg Ryan’s character to move beyond her mother’s shadow. But on the other hand, why the hell would her shop have to close? She could’ve just expanded to include YA books or something. Anyway, that Borders Fox Books isn’t going to last long.
Free yourself from deliberating over the machinations of 1990s NYC publishing and watch the 1940 rom-com that inspired Nora Ephron—a film which itself was based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. Surreal as it is, the 1940 movie stays in Budapest even as it hires all American actors who all speak English. Store manager Alfred Kralik (Jimmy Stewart) and shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) have a lacerating chemistry, but the best lines remain, specifically Klara’s devastating dressing down of Kralik and his response: “That’s a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.” Who doesn’t love a dash of dramatic irony in their holiday spirit?
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