Word: rios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster-and even funnier-spoof of Hollywood action melodramas...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Fighting off mad scientists, crocodiles and poisoned darts, Belmondo strikes again in Director de Broca's faster-and even funnier-spoof of Hollywood action melodramas...
Despite Bertrand's roll call of lady loves, Amelinha to Yvette, little actually happens. Episode 1: Bertrand sun? himself on the beach at Rio with his mistress Mathilde and thinks about other women. Episode 2: he gets drunk at a Paris literary party thrown for him by his mistress Irene and thinks about other women. Episode 3: he wanders the streets of Manhattan after breaking up with Leslie and thinks about other wom en. Episode 4: he takes Francine to bed-and she should have kicked him out for thinking about other women. Total result of all this phenomenological...
...just as Joāo and Getz were about to launch a countrywide tour, Joāo developed a "cramp in his playing arm" and had to bow out. Astrud replaced him and suddenly found herself a star. Astrud is herself a girl from Ipanema, a section of Rio de Janeiro's sparkling beach front, who came to the U.S. two years ago with Joāo. Last week, with the single edition of The Girl from Ipanema burning up the teen-age record market, Astrud Gilberto was trying to get used to her new billing-at least...
...sniffling, please. This isn't a romantic tragedy. It's a costume comedy. It was made by Philippe de Broca, the same French director who recently employed Belmondo in a travesty of a thriller called That Man from Rio, and while Cartouche is seldom as funny as That Man, it nevertheless comes off as a careless but carefree and occasionally hilarious parody of a period piece...