A Farewell to Arms
Capsule by Don Druker
From the Chicago Reader

Surrealist film critic Ado Kyrou writes of this 1932 film that director Frank Borzage "changed the impersonal and distant tone of Hemingway's novel and imbued it with a passionate warmth." That's an understatement--Borzage's passionate spirituality washes over this simple tale of a soldier (Gary Cooper) who deserts during World War I to be reunited with the woman he loves (Helen Hayes). As in all Borzage films, the triumph of love comes at a terrible physical cost, but the final sequences are among the most moving in all his work. 78 min.

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