Bolero
by John Derek
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Actor: Ana Obreg?n, Andrea Occhipinti, Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Olivia d'AboDirector: John Derek
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Bolero
Movie Review: BIBLICALLY AWFUL!
Summary: 5 Stars
After blank-eyed beauty Bo Derek achieved stardom playing a contemporary wanton in the 1979 hit 10, her Svengali, husband John Derek, took her red-hot career in hand and went further than he had with his earlier lookalike wives, Ursula Andress and Linda Evans: he became Bo's exclusive auteur, miscast her as period-piece virgins, and with just two Bad Movies to Cherish, brought her reign as a love goddess to a screeching halt.
In the second of these gems, Bolero, Bo is a `20s heiress who tells school pal Ana Obregon, "In the ways of love, we're kindergarten toddlers." Bo wants to head for Morocco to "learn of ecstasy. What a beautiful word: E-X-T -- " "No, no," Obregon interrupts to correct Bo's spelling, but if you ask us, Bo knew full well what she was spelling -- "Extasy," the name of the `80s "hug drug" that could go a long way to explain this frenzied love-in of a movie. "Let's go wallow in it, do the backstroke in it!" Bo exults. Yes, let's.
Desert Sheik Greg Benson slurps honey off Bo's naked torso, but then passes out cold, leaving Bo to complain, "I'm all dressed up with no place to go!" So Bo tries her luck in Spain, chasing after matador Andrea Occipinti. In a sex scene of jaw-dropping exhibitionism that is exceeded only by later scenes in this same film, the naked Occipinti pulls apart Bo's legs, and we recall (not for the first time, and certainly not for the last) that it is Bo's husband who has staged and photographed this sequence. In case we're unable to follow what's happening as the actor gamely humps away atop her, Bo helpfully remarks, "I'm not a virgin anymore." (Thank you for sharing, Bo.) As often happens in real life, the matador is gored by a bull . . . yes, there.
In John Derek's signature "I wonder if the idiots who watch my movies can possibly follow the plot?" style, he has Obregon ask Bo the obvious: "You don't care if he can never make love again?" A foolish question, if you know Bo's healing powers. Certain that "the doomsday doctors" are wrong, Bo goes to her lover's side to tell him, as she points at his crotch, "That thing is going to work!"
(How? Glad you asked.) Bo learns to fight a bull, natch, bringing a whole new meaning to the term "bareback" as she rides around the bullring in the buff. This accomplished, she returns to Occipinti and commands, "I want ecstasy," whips her wet hair across his naked torso, climbs astride him, and applauds. (You'll want to cry "Bravo!" but you won't need to -- Bo does that, too.) Their lovemaking is so fine, dry-ice smoke wafts in, colored lights flash, and a neon sign comes on, reading "EXTASY," (So we won't mistake Bo for a tramp, the movie ends with the couple getting married.)
Bolero is hysterically, biblically, awful. It's painfully, egregiously, aggressively, and endearingly inept. Plus it's got George Kennedy in it. Oooooo, our head!
Summary of Bolero
Hollywood's legendary sex symbol Bo Derek is "preternaturally gorgeous" (The New York Times) as a curious American ingenue who is ready to shed the trappings of girlhood and become a woman. Full of exotic locales fraught encounters and radiant beauty Bolero is an "intoxicating" (LA Movie Gazette) adventure pulsating with sensuous pleasure and sexual awakening.Upon graduating from school in Britain the wealthy Ayre "Mac" MacGillivery (Derek) hungers for more education in the art of love! Journeying to Morocco she meets a handsome sheik but alas he falls asleep while seducing her. A hot-blooded matador in Spain does not disappoint however. Unlocking her deepest desires her world-class lover gives her a lesson in ecstasy she'll never forget.System Requirements: Running Time 105 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?027616925732 Manufacturer No:?1008564Bolero, directed by Bo Derek's husband John, comes billed as "a masterpiece of erotic adventure" (the original theatrical trailer included on this disc is almost worth the price of the DVD). Derek stars as "Mac," who, after "so many years of being so very, very proper," is determined to lose her maidenhood. After a comically disastrous episode with a sheik, she catches the eye of a matador, but their affair takes a frustrating turn after he suffers an inconvenient accident in the ring. As many observers note throughout the film, Derek just may have been "the most beautiful woman in all the world," and for some, that is enough. The fact that she is clearly more comfortable with her equine costars than she is with the rest of the human cast (including--good Lord--George Kennedy as her chauffeur and confidant) is just another of her endearing charms. But for Derek's less patient fans, Amazon.com presents this timed-out guide to the "good parts," or, to be less PC, the scenes in which the ravishing Ms. Derek appears in various stages of undress: 5:00; 20:57; 59:12; 1:28:36; and 1:38:48. But really, for connoisseurs of bad movies, it's all good, from the curious credits ("Love scenes scored by Elmer Bernstein") to the ludicrous dialogue ("I want ecstasy... right now"). Bolero may not be a 10, but as a cinematic debacle of Showgirls proportions, it is a must-own "20." --Donald Liebenson
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