Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is really a series of dramatied snapshots of a woman. As sensitively played by Dorothy Tutm, Victoria Regina seems only incidentally the ruler of an empire, and chiefly the ruled wife of her beloved consort Albert...
Among Women Only is a wonderful tour de force about the self-made woman. The heroine is a Turin gamine with enough brains and beauty to make good in the silky Roman world of couture. She knows her men well, and her willingness to share their beds implies no regard for their superiority. She is the novel's narrator, but the disguise is transparent: it is still Pavese speaking. His observations about women are cutting, as when a restless wife concludes: "Living is really putting up with someone else and going to bed with him, whether you feel like...
...American swinger called Candice (who is played by an actress called Candice Bergen). Sick of deceit, he tells Catherine everything and goes off to live with Candice. Meanwhile Catherine sets out on a new life of her own. But of course, in the style of A Man and a Woman, he realizes that he has Fallen Hard already--ten years ago, in fact--and returns to Candice. Candice goes back to New York, self-sufficient, as predatory as always, and all ends happily...
...Claude Lelouch, the director, somehow lost the simplicity and straightforwardness that made such a wonderful film of his A Man and a Woman. The directing is still there: the freshness and unpretentiousness of home-movies comes through in the acting, as, unfortunately, it does in the editing. A Man and a Woman flowed; each episode followed the one before it smoothly. In Live for Life, the documentary sequences chop up the story, and though Lelouch has tried to fashion a rope, all we get is a few strands loosely wound together. The story itself stops and starts like a temperamental...
Annie Girardoux is eloquent as Catherine, the almost-middle-aged woman who is old enough to understand Robert, and yet so much younger than Candice, the shallow, suave worldling. Catherine reminds one of Julie Christie in Billy Liar--a woman so loving that she will sacrifice her love to her man's happiness...or his whim...