Avis des critiques

The spectacle of said spree, much like the hotel itself, is a consumerist fantasy designed to astonish Depression-era viewers, though the filmmakers also acknowledge the hard work of the hotel employees who keep the fantasy running. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 opens with a spiffy montage of the various employees getting the hotel to tip-top shape; in its dynamic editing and camera angles, the sequence feels like a capitalist variation on early Soviet filmmaking.

Though less skilled at directing light comedy and backstage drama than the makers of his earlier musical masterworks, such as "42nd Street" and "Footlight Parade," and though saddled with a story that trapped him in a milieu far less immediately appealing than the world of New York theatre (namely, a resort hotel for the rich and ridiculous), Berkeley lent "Gold Diggers of 1935" an original hectic tone.