Word: monica
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Victoria H. Jueds; Jae K. Kang; Jessie K. Liu; Heather C. McGlinn; Eloise H. Pasachoff; Wena Poon; Monica R. Salamon; Amanda J. Schaffer...
Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna's fiance and something of a corporate sell-out, becomes enthralled by Anna's best friend, the blond Claudia (Monica Vitti). After an initial, ambivalent embrace between Sandro and Claudia in the still mooredyacht, the movie drifts away from the scene of Anna's disappearance and away from Anna herself...
...Monica Vitti is the center of this movie, as far as it can be said to have one. The viewer is left with her beautiful face, her dynamic hair, the motions of her hands, as clues to the meaning of Antonioni's relentlessly difficult and oppresive representation of human interaction. She becomes a crucial element of the stark, geometric environment in which she lives. Her feelings, it seems, hold the clue to the movie's elusive meaning and moral framework. But her feelings are inscrutable...
...Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The script, by Brooks, Andrew Bergman and Monica Johnson, draws a specific parallel between Steve and another primitive creature imported to amuse jaded New Yorkers -- King Kong -- and it is a measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids the kind of sentiment that so often encrusts...
...film ends in a boardroom show-down, as Geraldine and Monica--both wearing skirts--show up the bad guys. Big deal, especially since Pasdar's performance breaks down in the big boardroom and not even a green suit and red glasses help...