To New Shores (1937) by Douglas Sirk
Sunday, March 13, 1983, 8:00 pm
Douglas Sirk
Part II
To New Shores (1937), 105 min. This is the last film Sirk made in Germany before emigrating to the U.S.
“These Sirk’s are wild. His art may have gotten subtler in Hollywood but not more audacious. In these works no icon has a simplistic, easily solvable frame of reference. The motifs and symbols are a series of fluctuating, often contradictory, meanings and interpretations that must be measured within the given context and then qualified again. An immediate appreciative laugh shouldn’t obscure the double puns and triple meanings to be found in Sirk’s outrageous moments.” —Warren Sonbert.