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When Director Roman Polanski (Tess), 48, was mulling over candidates to portray Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the upcoming Paris production of the Broadway hit Amadeus, he cast his eye near and far, and finally settled on near. He chose himself. After all, who better to capture the essence of the young musical prodigy with the libertine air than a child actor turned acclaimed adult director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux...
...always ho-ho-hoing." "What attracts me to this role is the chance to play both a young innocent and an intelligent girl who has made the choice of living intensely." So says Actress Nastassja Kinski, 20, a veteran of seven movies and a few romances (Directors Roman Polanski, Milos Forman), in Paris to film Exposed. In the picture Kinski plays a girl who trades in her protected life in the rural Midwest for a career as a fashion model. "She wants to be obsessed by something," says Kinski, who has been fretting a bit about her own career...
Chinatown (1974) d. Roman Polanski (Oscar nominee; best actor, NY Film Critics...
...peasant dress, with locks tumbling down her back, she was the essence of pouty innocence in Roman Polanski's Tess. Well, take another look, because in Francis Coppola's upcoming musical One from the Heart, set in the Las Vegas world of neon nights, Actress Nastassia Kinski, 20, plays a circus performer with the wily ways of a seductress twice her age. Heart is being billed as "a fantasy about love, jealousy and sex." From the look of things, Nastassia fills the bill...
Even worse, the passions which drove noir seem almost charming today. When Roman Polanski made the mock-noir Chinatown, he had to slice open Nicholson's nostril to get the same effect that was once accomplished by showing a couple of thugs lurking outside the window. Leave it to the Reader's Digest to mourn our passing national innocence--but the real problem is we've lost our faith in passion. Murder and passion seem almost antithetical at the present, and adultery--well, adultery is for adolescents...