The Barefoot Contessa
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Movie Reviews of The Barefoot Contessa
Movie Review: BAREFOOT CONTESSA
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS WAS A CLASSIC LOOK AT WHAT MOVIES USED TO BE....TRUE TO LIFE AND NO SLEAZE...AT LEAST NOT SO GRAPHICMovie Review: Fav Bogart.
Summary: 5 Stars
Great scenes, dialog, atmosphere, cast. Looooove the chemistry between Bogart and Gardner. One of my favorites.Movie Review: The Barefoot Contessa
Summary: 5 Stars
Nothing much to write of. Excellent casting, the story holds up well, not dated. An all time favorite of mine.Movie 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!Movie Review: Which prince will have the glass slipper? (recommended)
Summary: 4 Stars
In vivid Technicolor, Academy Award winning THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA stars ravishing Ava Gardner as Maria Vargas -- a rising movie star with a heart in more humble surroundings and romantic dreams based on storybook fantasies that end in tragedy. Beginning with Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), the men in her short life have flashbacks about how each met and affected her. Between stories, the camera pans back to the active cemetery funeral service before zooming in on a new character.
Harry, a movie writer/director who has his own love interest, nurtures with Maria more of a protective sibling relationship than carnal attraction. She may see the wisdom in his advice at times but is motivated by her own heart and fairy tales. With the stage presence of Catherine Zeta-Jones, 30-year-old Gardner actually had the most difficult role to convey as Maria. Though she preferred to walk barefoot, she no longer was comfortable hiding in the squaller and she was not happy with the life as an instant Hollywood sensation. Maria was too much woman for the lowly gypsies with which she grew up and not enough for the misogynistic aristocrats bemused by her chastity and surreal beauty.
There is some romance but with Harry having his own girl, the narration and vignettes come across more as a suspenseful -- often comedic documentary than a romantic love story. Adding to this are Maria's unrealistic ideas about love that were only transcended by the man she eventually married. In the end you have a complete picture of who Maria was, by whom was she known as THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, and why her life ended so abruptly. With four intertwined stories to tell, the movie may appear a bit long at 130 minutes. Yet, Gardner lights up each scene. There are also some "well-known bright remarks," coming from the vicinity of Bogart.
Favorite quotes: (1) "Script girl, name is Jerry.""She has the name of a man?""I assure you there is no further resemblance." (2) "I do not like Mr. Kirk Edwards.""You're standing at the end of a very long line."