Reviews

As You Desire Me is a wonderful film and it so so primarily by Garbo, she is just wonderful as Zara (I like that character better than Maria) she is more believable as Zara, and Von Stroheim, is just wild in the part of Salter, he was such a ham, but it goes with the territory....it is one of Garbo's forgotten talkies, and it is unfair, if only to see her as a platinum blonde (I think Kim Novak later on resembled GG very closely when you see GG in that hairdo and as a platinum blonde) I give the movie my best rating, I love all her films, but this is just wonderful to see. It must be placed on DVD and properly restored. The story is very good (I have heard that Vertigo was loosely based on this Pirandello play, it might very well be true, with the painting and the transformation of the main character, however, Vertigo did not have Garbo nor the storyline, this is a wonderful film, such acting by Garbo, but what else can be said about her and her films, just wonderful to behold.