This year is the 75th anniversary of Casablanca, the romantic and resonant melodrama praised by Umberto Eco for fusing together clichés and archetypes in such a moving way that it reaches Homeric depths and gives a glimpse of the sublime.
The movie is a triumph of the Hollywood Golden Age studio system, a masterpiece whose artistic masterfulness comes from its superior craftsmanship and the way in which the individual artists worked together to make a picture explic…
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