Word: girardot
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...Annie Girardot is an exceptional actress, but she is allowed little opportunity to prove it in the role of the teacher. To play her adolescent par amour, Cayatte has chosen Bruno Pradal, 22, an actor who looks no more than 30. Two days before her death, Gabrielle Russier said, "I hope what is happening to me serves some pur pose." The moviegoer can only hope that some higher purpose has been served than this film...
Love Is a Funny Thing is a kind of dual romance. It is simultaneously the story of an affair between a French film actress (Annie Girardot) and a composer (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a testament to Director Claude Lelouch's passion for the U.S. The whole country becomes a vast film set through which Lelouch moves his actors with the abandon of an intoxicated tourist...
Thanks primarily to the considerable charm of the two leading players, the characters never get lost. Belmondo's boyish bravura and Annie Girardot's wily sexuality lend substance to a plot as insubstantial as California sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing...
...Belmondo probably created more of a spectacle in Tucson than he would have in Greenwich Village. In the film, Again, a Love Story, with Oscar-winning Director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman), the Hopi bit is just a brief diversion in the adventures of Belmondo and Annie Girardot, who meet and mate as two French tourists motoring across America. "I chose Girardot and Belmondo," said Lelouch, "because they are not really made for each other. If there is love between these two people, it is because they are in a foreign country. In France, nothing would have happened...
Candy is not dandy for long; fighting the old ennui, Montand takes on a new assignment in Viet Nam. After he is listed as missing, wife and mistress separately recall the husband-lover who may be dead. Girardot muses over a few dry scraps of memories, while Bergen recites a maundering monologue: "I think I lost my youth ... a man of 40 stole it ... I'll fall in love with an American from Houston or Memphis . . . have children named John or Elizabeth . . ." After such a drizzly forecast, it is no wonder that when Montand is released by the Viet...