The Barefoot Contessa
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Actor: Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Marius Goring, Valentina CorteseDirector: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Brand: BOGART,HUMPHREY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of The Barefoot Contessa
DVD Review: The Barren Contessa
Summary: 3 Stars
More a film of thought and sharp-edged dialogue or speechifying than plot or character. The shifting POVs across the Contessa's admirers define the sprawling and overlong narrative. Bogart's removal as a love interest diminishes the possible chemistry that might have ignited the film. What we get instead, is Maria Vargas being pursued by a series of ruthless and sullen rich men without a grain of real or palpable passion. In fact, all the leading men are rendered impotent in one way or another, fueling an unsettling uneasiness that grinds us along. With Ava and Bogart as two aloof characters at the film's center, our attention turns to the churn of ambience and mise-en-scene that sets the historical framework, providing some insight into the vacuity of the international set. With it's misanthropy and cynicism so unrelenting, it's a tough go that leaves a chill in the air colder than the death of its leading lady. DVD Review: fantastic Ava Gardner
Summary: 5 Stars
What a movie and a great cast, Ava Gardner at her best. The movie still holds you until the last frame!DVD Review: A very strange twisted fairytale
Summary: 4 Stars
When a Spanish Gypsy dancer becomes a Hollywood queen,
the wolves come out of the woodwork.
When her mother is killed by her father in self-defense
the whole story of her life of poverty comes out.
It is the South American rich man who changes everything for
the actress and her director friend.
It is what happens after she meets her prince charming that makes this an anti-Cinderella fairytale.
I missed this when it came out and never saw it play on TV.
The acting, plot, setting and costumes are all very good.
I actually liked this movie with the strange ending.
DVD Review: I forgot.....
Summary: 5 Stars
...how great this movie was! The ending surprised me (forgot the ending), and the chemistry between Bogart & Gardner touched me greatly. The dvd was perfect.DVD Review: OVER THE TOP
Summary: 3 Stars
Usual Hollywood formula - rich boy finds poor but beautiful and talented girl, rich boy marries girl, beautiful and talented girl discovers that
rich husband has nothing working below the belt, rich boy finds wife and stable boy in barn together- and shoots them both...
Description of The Barefoot Contessa
A director turns a barefoot cabaret dancer into a star who suffers a tragic end.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-JUL-2002
Media Type: DVD
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