Sunset Boulevard

A venomous Hollywood elegy where fame rots, dreams linger, and a forgotten star scripts her comeback by consuming the man foolish enough to believe it.

  • Director

    Billy Wilder

  • With

    William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

  • USA 1950. 110min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    12A

Wilder’s pitch-black film noir sees Joe Gillis, a broke screenwriter, ensnared by Norma Desmond, a delusional silent-film relic longing for the glory of a comeback. Living on Hollywood’s margins, Joe becomes a ghostwriter, kept man and witness to untrammelled obsession. Swanson and Holden are outstanding here, while von Stroheim and a succession of cameos by Hollywood legends from the silent and early sound era populate this dark portrait of Tinseltown.