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Information
- Year
- 1933
- Runtime
- 88 min.
- Director
- Frank Lloyd
- Genres
- Romance, Fantasy
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 315
- Checks
- 98
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 3.1% (1:33)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Berkeley Square is rather cagey as to how its particular quantum leap can happen, or at least, how Leslie Howard's Peter Standish can know (the opening sequence set in the 18th Century seems to imply there have been prior trips inside the body of his ancestor, but he makes so many mistakes on the trip we do see, it later seems unlikely. In any case, this is more Gothic romance than it is science-fiction, treating the present-day sequences the way you might the story of a haunting, and the 18th Century as if Standish were a supernatural visionary and then a demon needing to be exorcised. It's interesting that this lover of history who intends to observe and follow his ancestor's journals to the letter finds himself falling in love with the wrong woman in the past, threatening to short-circuit his own timeline. And so Berkeley Square becomes a doomed, somewhat overwrought romance. A bit esoteric and confusing, but I did find this take on time travel (and the locals' reactions) interesting. 3 years 7 months ago