Strike one - JLC as a blonde.
Strike two - JLC in Burberys, bleh.
Strike three - that nauseating if predictable bath scene should have been left on the cutting room floor. Totally inappropriate and gratuitous; the viewer quite unwillingly becomes voyeur, resulting in a feeling of "horror" likely very different from what the filmmakers intended.
The ONLY merits of this flick are the lush, detailed interiors and cinematography. Ms. Curtis also gives life to this one-dimensional psychomommy as only she is able, and Redgrave offers up a creepy Clytemnestra to Curtis' irretrievably damaged, traumatized Electra.
Let's put it this way: the $4.95 I spent on this perverted Used Bin pablum wasn't really worth it. But then, that all-black number on Curtis in the seduction scene between she and Gallagher...that'll keep it off the sell-back pile for the time being. Two stars just for that.
Strike two - JLC in Burberys, bleh.
Strike three - that nauseating if predictable bath scene should have been left on the cutting room floor. Totally inappropriate and gratuitous; the viewer quite unwillingly becomes voyeur, resulting in a feeling of "horror" likely very different from what the filmmakers intended.
The ONLY merits of this flick are the lush, detailed interiors and cinematography. Ms. Curtis also gives life to this one-dimensional psychomommy as only she is able, and Redgrave offers up a creepy Clytemnestra to Curtis' irretrievably damaged, traumatized Electra.
Let's put it this way: the $4.95 I spent on this perverted Used Bin pablum wasn't really worth it. But then, that all-black number on Curtis in the seduction scene between she and Gallagher...that'll keep it off the sell-back pile for the time being. Two stars just for that.