The Pleasure Garden

If you are a young filmmaker, it’s not very likely that you will repeat Orson Welles’ achievement and have your feature directorial debut hailed as an undisputed masterpiece. In fact, you should consider yourself quite fortunate if your debut turns out merely good. Such statistics can work even against celebrated geniuses of world cinema like Alfred Hitchcock, at least judging by his first film, the 1925 British sil…