A haunting romance. Quite possibly the best in this fantasy romance subgenre, next to "Somewhere In Time" and "Brigadoon"

Starts out looking like a masterpiece, but disappoints a bit at the end.

An unusual romance with a supernatural twist to it. The highlight is the cinematography, lots of picture-postcard moments with soft lighting. Cotten is always a pleasure and Barrymore's character is quite likeable. On the downside, the film drowns under the wall-to-wall Debussy score. Also, the dialogue and narration deals too heavily in useless romantic abstractions, but I suppose some people like that sort of thing. Overall, it's a nice, touching movie.

So odd.

Beautiful dreamlike imagery and compelling mysterious romance. The leads do a wonderful job but the star is undoubtedly the cinematography. At times it feels a little heavy handed, something not helped by the opening narration, but ultimately it didn't hamper my enjoyment.

A film about the artist's muse as a ghost, an intermittent siren whose visits become all-consuming, and eventually, an obsession. It's only after the artist has finished his first truly inspired & personal work that he no longer needs the muse as a crutch, for he has absorbed her.

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A well-made, haunting romance that does drag at times, despite its short runtime.

"William Dieterle's 1948 masterpiece Portrait of Jennie is not only an unabashedly romantic melodrama but also a fascinating ghost story." - Ed Gonzalez

Thing about films that rely on two characters falling passionately in love, you've really got to feel it, or else the whole thing falls to pieces? What did Eben see in Jennie? She was... innocent, maybe? What did Jennie see in Eben? He was.... there.

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Intensely romantic, every exterior scene has this dreamy, undetermined character (the distinct texture in some of the images makes them look like paintings/embroidery). And it gets quite fucking astonishing at the end; a lighthouse, a storm, depicted as a grandiose dream, Cotton, waves and a threatening sky, his love, maybe a dream, a ghost or what the fuck, a place out there.. An amazing sequence. But I'm bothered by the haughty music going throughout the film, I must say.