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The Barefoot Contessa

1954

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring ...

7.3

6,414

Drama. Romance. Mystery At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she worked as a flamenco dancer. He convinces her to take a chance on acting and her first film is a huge hit. PR man Oscar Muldoon remembers when Maria was in court supporting her father who was accused of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"It's overlong, talky, and sometimes stolid, but these are all familiar Mankiewicz failings. (...) An imperfect film, but its excesses are as suggestive as its subtleties."
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The Barefoot Contessa" is perhaps the most elaborately structured Hollywood film since Citizen Kane."
		Empire	"Entertaining satire from a talented cast."
		Variety Staff Variety	"Sharpness of the characters, the high-voltage dialog, the cynicism and wit and wisdom of the story (...) these add up to a click feature from writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is a sketchy and arbitrary story"

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