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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Portrait of Jennie, it turns a romantic longing into a delicate temporal fantasy, with an artistically composed, old-world mood and an earnest sense of love reaching beyond ordinary time.
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Why this pick
Its restrained supernatural romance, period elegance, and melancholy devotion closely echo the tender, elusive feeling of Eben and Jennie’s connection.
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Why this pick
This intimate, wistful fable shares Portrait of Jennie’s belief that love and artistic perception can transform reality, delivered with gentle old-Hollywood romanticism.
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Why this pick
For its unhurried, autumnal romance with a visitor who seems to stand outside normal life, and its elegant melancholy about brief, life-altering connection.
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Why this pick
It offers a similarly tender correspondence across time, favoring mood, patience, and the ache of two people drawn together by an impossible temporal distance.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) meets a fey little girl named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones) in Central Park, Manhattan. She is wearing old-fashioned clothing. He makes a sketch of her from memory which involves him with art dealer Miss Spinney (Ethel Barrymore), who sees potential in him. This inspires him to paint a portrait of Jennie.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jennie Appleton
Miss Spinney
Moore
Eben Adams
Mother Mary of Mercy
Matthews
Gus O'Toole
Mrs. Jekes
