After watching this I was very sad that it was nothing like as good as Mamoulian's earlier one with Love Me Tonight (1932) but then I saw in the Indicator, Blu Ray booklet a piece by Dietrich herself. She wanted to ask Brian Aherne from UK, 'Why have you come to do this silly picture? I have to do it because of my contract, and Mr von Sternberg has walked out and I am without any protection...Are you crazy?' Aherne also noted he had, 'put down the script of The Song of Songs in blank despair'. So it didn't look as I was the only one. Although I have to say there are some great moments. Dietrich looks lovely all the time, the scene early on in the bookshop is fine when the sculptor (Aherne) has his eyes on her and later in his studio and she is undressing while he caresses his work of her. There is a wonderful scene when the couple leave their boat and she dances in the countryside. Of course at the end there is the splendid, but rather short, song in the night spot. So it is very poor but enough of the little bits are good enough.
Review of The Song of Songs
