The Barefoot Contessa

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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

actors:

Humphrey Bogart	as Harry Dawes
Ava Gardner	as Maria Vargas
Edmond O'Brien	as Oscar Muldoon
Marius Goring	as Alberto Bravano
Valentina Cortese	as Eleanora Torlato-Favrini
Rossano Brazzi	as Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini
Elizabeth Sellars	as Jerry
Warren Stevens	as Kirk Edwards
Franco Interlenghi	as Pedro Vargas
Mari Aldon	as Myrna
Bessie Love	as Mrs. Eubanks
Diana Decker	as Drunken blonde
Bill Fraser	as J. Montague Brown
Alberto Rabagliati	as Nightclub proprietor
Enzo Staiola	as Busboy

directors:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
rating:6.90

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What has been said - very often in these pages - that the film is a visual medium.
There's nothing wrong with that until you start thinking about all those
"Quote of the film 'books that are gradually becoming a mini-industry. Any real
Amateur a movie worth its salt can cite at least forty percent of the
DIALOGUE 'Casablanca', but I have not yet heard, even more than ONE gush
Mounting opening although it was shot by Don Siegel or speak in terms
Reverencial about camera angles, pans, Dolly shooting, and so I am, of course
, speaking on the fan-in - the-street, the true fan film,
whose only purpose of a movie is pure enjoyment, as opposed to academic
And / or film 'scholar', which has decided to earn a Life with
Obscurely writing about the film instead of stack shelves at Safeways.
So here we have a dialogue from the film and heavy since the dialogue was
Acorraladas by Mank - the man who gave him "A Letter to three wives' and 'All
About Eve ", but is still perhaps best known as the guy who had the chutzpah
rewrite Scott Fitzgerald (Mank was producer of" Three Comrades' in which
Fitzgerald received his sole & # 39; script 'credit) - we know going in that it will be
out of the bottle right. In fact for some people, myself included, Mank
name as a writer-director was the main selling point though Bogie and Ava Gardner
are not exactly chopped liver. In the event that the dialogue that
It takes away from this film, none more relevant than the Oscar Muldoon
bitter sense of betrayal to learn that Maria has every intention of
appearing at his trial his father's murder ... "Is there a single horn of
Wednesday night.
If the film is ultimately no more than disappointing, as it promised
Consideration of a warts and all Hollywood, in the tradition of
Sunset Boulevard, The Bad And The Beautiful, and so changed HALF course
Concentrate on the character of the same name OUT sunset and Vine.
Of course, in a way you could argue that Mank was prudent to take this course
Because after all, the WHO or WHAT COULD compete with Wilder and Minelli,
Among them, said almost everything what to say about Tinseltown
Behind Closed Shutters.
What remains is a richly cynical look at Hollywood and the Jet Set
Bogie concisely conveyed through voice-overs (both for a visual medium) and a
turn by the virtuous Eddie O & # 39; Brien who really deserve your DID
Best Actor Oscar - an Oscar to another, as you might say. Mank (Joe, who is
), as did his older brother Herman, stressed on dialogue and brittle in its
Best (wives, Eva) gave us enduring masterpieces, it only lost, but remains < br> worth listening, if not to see. 7 / 10
Around talent for a forthcoming film to be shot in Italy, a trio of Hollywood
(writer / director Bogart, producer and publicist Steven O'Brien)
Trip to Spain to the extent of renowned local dance sensation Maria Vargas
(Gardner). Immediately, was surprised by her beauty and presence. In fact,
Gardner has a profound effect on every man is ... Although the effect is
As unique as every man she encounters. Stevens believes that a talent to be exploited and
For all worth O'Brien sees only huge tents and dollar signs. But
Bogart, after a couple of brief but telling conversation with Maria, go
Much more. Waiting for a naive peasant Spanish eager to grab at the brass ring
finds its place as an intelligent woman as she is beautiful,
whose main motivation is to enjoy the challenge and the escape of a Hollywood career
It could offer a woman who in spite of everything, always the value of the things simpler
Life. Even with its rare beauty and inate expert, to the detriment
Maria does not have eyes in the back of his head. He said
flashback in the viewer experiences his success in Hollywood and
their quest to find true love of a man (Brazzi)
that has always eluded her.

In the hands of Joseph Mankiewicz, "The Barefoot Contessa" often
Sows with crackling dialogue (it is expected that there will be fewer?). Unique in
This contribution Mankiewicz is the omen that hangs over the film.
As the details of Mary's life are exposed, empathy for their plight
increases accordingly. Impecablemente well cast, it is actually a set of films.
Gardner is bright as Mary, but she is not solely dependent on her
Watch the film - she gives a real return. Bogart is stalwart
And like Maria sympathetic guard. And O'Brien, in an Academy Award-winning
in turn, is astute and oily as the only who think publicist
changes allegiances as often as his shirt soaked with sweat. Lensed by the great
Jack Cardiff and shot largely in Italy, the European environment, as well as
Snappy dialogue, boost the credibility of the premise
a notch or two above many others revelations of the so-called Hollywood and excess
Claim.

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