Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
Cinematography
Early two-strip Technicolor dream sequences that look like fever dreams
Costume
Flapper fashion that screams 'I have a trust fund and a death wish'
Director
George Fitzmaurice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of only a handful of films using the early two-strip Technicolor process, which could only reproduce reds and greens — giving those dream sequences their alien, unearthly glow.
Based on a novel by Joseph Hergesheimer, who specialized in lush, overwritten prose about beautiful people having beautiful crises — basically the 1920s equivalent of an Instagram aesthetic account.
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