Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gibraltar. Put them all together, they form Brigitte Bardot, back again in an epidermoid epic directed by her first husband Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). For those who may have missed BB on earlier outings, Vadim-apparently reminiscing-offers the Grand Tour. He photographs her frontwards, backwards, sideways, closeup, long view, and from above, through what appears to be a hole in the ceiling. And in one memorable variation, he has her running the vacuum toute nue. Based on a bestselling French novel, Warrior's Rest, the movie casts Bardot as a girl who inherits a fortune, goes...
...Snooping on Stephane when she makes daytime trips to Munich, he discovers that she has a lover. Charrier takes photographs of them embracing on street corners, behind shop windows. He shows the pictures to Reyer -a cruel series of enlargements in which a kiss is blown up into a closeup of the lovers' lips, grainy, harsh, terrible. The husband is quiet while he studies the enlargements, then murmurs: "Happiness is so fragile." The picture's climax is bloody, its denouement is filled with despair...
...McKenna, for all her gloriously peat boggy voice and her fine face with its mouth shaped like a shamrock leaf, is 20 years too old to be playing the fiery-tempered Pegeen opposite the likes of boyish Gary Raymond. A pity, too, for the magic goes well until a closeup breaks the spell...
...weighs when she puts it on. A disembodied set of naked legs cut off at the pelvis can be either a wonderfully sheer pair of stockings or somebody's erotic dream walking, and a model chosen for the most beautiful navel on Photographers' Row provides a giant closeup of her specialty to demonstrate the proper distance between a sweater and a pair of slacks...
Telstar brought the pomp and pageantry, and even a searching closeup of the Pope's joyful if weary expression. Yet the true awe of last week's opening of Vatican Council II lay in seeing and sensing the variety, implicit power, and sheer numbers of the bishops, patriarchs and abbots who paraded into St. Peter's to start history's biggest religious council...