The Clock | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Like all the best melodramas, it shows us how society is set up to keep our hopelessly ambiguous interior worlds in check. But all you have to do is look at Garland to feel that racing pulse beneath the skin...she knew that love is anxiety.

The film creates an environment bereft of cynicism.

Director Vincente Minnelli's talents are so many-sided and generous that he turns even the most over-contrived romanticism into something memorable.

Billed in some circles as the original Before Sunrise, Vincente Minnelli's The Clock doesn't come particularly close to reaching those hallowed grounds, but its structure and conclusion certainly make the comparison understandable.

Evanescent romance braving urban landscapes and wartime ruptures, captured by a gliding-craning-caressing camera