Wartime chaos brings rogues, spies and refugees to Casablanca, and most of them end up at Rick's American Café. This may well be a perfect movie, full of humor, intrigue, and one of the great love stories of all time.
Creating a Brechtian distanciation via self-reflexivity and intertextuality, it deconstructs traditional film expressions while remains an aesthetical and philosophical classism, where subjectivity of the heroine - a martyr to capitalist patriarchy - is circumscribed for effect.