Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chiding irony) benefits immeasurably from having been made in Jamaica. Indeed, it is the first full-fledged Jamaican feature, and it gives a view of the island-shabby houses, tense little nightclubs and baked-out countryside-that is not part of the standard paradise tour. For all its naive charm, the movie is not consistently successful. Its crudities of characterization and carelessness about certain matters of plot give it a kind of jerry-built look. But The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly sinister as the blade sliding out of a gravity...
...excelled. It seems that the 16th and 17th century artists were better observers than their 19th century successors. Hiroshige's American Woman on Horseback in the Snow, in Philadelphia, is the vaguest generalization probably based on a garbled story he had heard about Red Indian squaws; its charm is inaccuracy...
...lawyers and politicians are monsters...The woman who is an artist is merely ridiculous...Gracefulness is a woman's domain and even her duty... In former times, women freely sang and danced in order to be winsome and pleasing to men. Today they must be paid off; the charm has gone...
...Elizabeth Taylor told a Ladies' Home Journal interviewer, who seemed understandably dubious. Well, then, who is beautiful? "Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch." Also Madame Jovanka Tito, the wife of Yugoslavia's President. "She has an inner vitality, an inner glow, great genuine charm and a beautiful smile, but she is an enormous woman -you could sit on her chest." As to how the Taylor beauty will survive the years, the lady herself had a prediction: "I'll be a nice, cuddly, gray-haired old thing...
Bergman's best comedy, Smiles of a Summer Night, has a clever structure that allows its tone to range from the comic to the bitterly tragic. At base level, its concern is with the rebounds its numerous characters make between lovers. Though its charm and impact are unique, its subject and its unusual emotional range create an often-noted resemblance to Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game--a film Bergman had not seen at the time he made his production, and which he does not like today...