Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Christopher Frank's ripoff of Beneix's film draws on a better established tradition--the "nubile sexy teenagers on the beach" movie. The French add a new twist to this tried American tradition: breasts...
...ANNEE DE Meduses, The Year of the Jellyfish, is a second installment in what promises to be a new genre--or perhaps a twitch or movement--in French cinema: "the beautiful psychotic girl on the beach" film. It was introduced to American audiences last year by Jean-Jacques Beneix in his film adaptation of the bestseller 90 Degrees in the Shade. While the resulting film, Betty Blue, was the tale of an artist struggling against a world of assholes, Frank's story is that of a teenager named Chris (Valerie Kaprisky) struggling against the sterile adult promiscuity and warped class...
...realistic reflection of current fashion on French beaches, L'Annee de Meduses might haved been playfully retitled Boobs on the Beach for a more successful American release--though subtitles occasionally obscure the unsheathed mammaries...
Betty Blue is a sexy, feminist film by a male director, reminiscent of the great "woman's films"--like Mildred Pierce and Camille--which Hollywood produced at its height. L'Annee de Meduses is merely a vapid testimony to the boredom of life--and film--on the beach. If a director really wants to set drama on the beach, he had better pull a strong character out of the deep like Jaws...
...reputation. On Inauguration night, just after Jackie had gone home alone (she was still recovering from the difficult birth of John Jr.), a reporter peered through the potted palms behind the stage and saw Actresses Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson joining the President's small coterie. At a Palm Beach, Fla., mansion following Kennedy's summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the President dined with an old school chum, an acquaintance and two attractive young ladies. The acquaintance left after dinner and the chum and the ladies pointedly stayed...