I admit that I initially grabbed a copy of Clérambard (1969) out of a not-wholly pure interest in actress Dany Carrel, an interesting presence in French movies of the fifties and sixties (she retired in the eighties), distinguished by her Franco-Vietnamese exoticism, which was never openly acknowledged in the roles she played, and by her tendency to pop out of whatever dress she was put in. Her breasts aren't large, but they're seemingly omnipresent, like two small, pert Gerard Depardieus.
Clérambard was possibly the first film in which I've seen Carrel do some proper acting, and demonstrate rather impressive ebullience and comic timing, even if her character is a male fantasy of a small town prostitute (Borges once observed of Eva Peron that her lot was particularly unpleasant being from a small town, where the shame of her profession [prostitute, not dictator's wife] would be known to all). She plays second banana to star Philippe Noiret,...
Clérambard was possibly the first film in which I've seen Carrel do some proper acting, and demonstrate rather impressive ebullience and comic timing, even if her character is a male fantasy of a small town prostitute (Borges once observed of Eva Peron that her lot was particularly unpleasant being from a small town, where the shame of her profession [prostitute, not dictator's wife] would be known to all). She plays second banana to star Philippe Noiret,...
- 2/25/2010
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