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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Praise for Nastassia Kinski is long overdue [May 2]. It is only a matter of time before this talented beauty snags a role that will bring her the acclaim she deserves. And if Kinski does "fall in love on every set she's acted on," may I have an invitation to be an extra in her next film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Nastassia Kinski's performance onscreen is sufficient evidence that she does not have to rely on her beauty to captivate an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...part because in pitching the film to her, Toback played Tristan to her Isolde: "This movie is why we're alive. It is why you were born and I was born. If we die when this movie is finished it won't matter, because this is it." Nastassia seems unbothered that the resulting film looks like a Bloomingdale's window of Terrorist Chic, and that the story line functions as a metaphor for her dangerous need to be used by directors whose eccentricity overwhelms their artistry. Exposed is "a film and an experience I truly love," she says. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...very notion of stardom, instead putting their faith in big-budget special effects and no-name sex comedies. Kinski may have to settle for her current status as a celebrity commodity, for whom each film is not so much a vehicle as an expensive commercial for some exotic fragrance. "Nastassia No. 1 ... Share the fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Which are you, Nastassia Kinski? The child or the woman? The day beast or the dream angel? The European actress or the Hollywood star? The high-fashion doll or the rag doll? The new beauty or a woman older than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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