Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard is a dark, incisive masterpiece of Hollywood noir. The story follows Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled with Norma Desmond — a reclusive silent-film star clinging to the remnants of her fame. When Joe agrees to help her revise a grandiose comeback script, he is slowly drawn into her delusions, manipulations, and decaying mansion on Sunset Boulevard.
As their relationship becomes increasingly claustrophobic and warped, the film exposes the brutality of show business, the dangers of fading celebrity, and the cost of ambition. Gloria Swanson’s towering performance as Norma Desmond stands as one of cinema’s most iconic portrayals of obsession and decline.
