Street Angel (1928, Frank Borzage)
★★★★
In Naples, Angela is sentenced to a year in the workhouse when she tries to steal(while streetwalking) to pay for medicine for her dying mother. She escapes and is hidden by a circus, where she's a natural talent and meets Gino, a painter. When she breaks her ankle in a fall, her career ends. Gino wants to go to Naples, but the law may still be looking for her, but he doesn't know about her past. The story of a starving artist and a beauty with a secret.
This movie is a pure and stuning melodrama, it has a brilliant game of light and shadows. "Borzage is a poet of lovers that tries to live in an unfair world." An exquisite movie.
"Love is like the measles. When it comes you cannot stop it."