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...detailed and riveting, mainly because of his shrewd feelings for the nuances of Kennedy's character and internal conflicts. In late May 1968, during the California primary campaign, Kennedy attended a party at the Malibu beach house of director John Frankenheimer. The novelist Romain Gary, husband of actress Jean Seberg, fastened onto Kennedy and said, brutally, "You know, don't you, that somebody is going to kill you?" A few days later, when he was 42, somebody did. Bobby Kennedy vanished to become an item of America's counterfactual history. What if? Who knows...
Moviedom is filled with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print...
...handsome old tools. Contempt has movie stars, guns, car crashes, wide screen, beautiful color, the cliffs of Capri, the most rapturous music (by Georges Delerue, his violins sawing and soaring like Philip Glass in ecstasy). And, always, pretty women. A Ziegfeld of the Left Bank, Godard reinvented Jean Seberg and discovered Anna Karina, Juliet Berto, Maruschka Detmers, Myriem Roussel, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy--glories of Gallic cinema. In Contempt he saves Bardot from cheesecake notoriety. She's smart, sensitive, brutal, doomed...
starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg...
...which is fortunate, because it makes very little sense. But it is only at the end that its insignificance becomes clear- you do not need to understand what's happening, but only to whom it is happening. The relationship between Poiccard and the beautiful American reporter Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg) energizes the film, the rest of the plot (basically, Poiccard running from the law) exists only to keep the characters moving from place to place...