John M. Stahl | 1945 | USA | 110’ | EN subs

This month, Cavia opens the season with two precious gems by melodrama master John M. Stahl. In Leave Her to Heaven, a young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife’s insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen’s emotions become uncontrollable. One of Stahl’s most celebrated works, beautifully shot in technicolour.