Saturday 19 January 2013

The Barefoot Contessa (1954 Joseph Mankiewicz)

Mankiewicz's screenplay won an Oscar nomination.

Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien (AA), Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Elizabeth Sellars.


Beautifully shot in the recognisably melancholy pallette of Jack Cardiff.
Music Mario Nascimbene.

Similar in structure to Bad and the Beautiful with different characters taking on plot rotation.

Long, has scenes which seem to me too talky, but holds the attention.

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