The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
The Barefoot Contessa is one of Ava Gardner’s most famous movies, and some say it embodied her real-life escapades, but since I don’t like her movies and think she was a pretty terrible person, I don’t like it. Humphrey Bogart couldn’t even fix it.
At the start of the movie, we see the attendants at Ava Gardner’s funeral. Four men, Humphrey Bogart, Rossano Brazzi, Edmond O’Brien, and Marius Goring, tell fragments of her life story to the audience in flashback. In a way, it reminds me of The Bad and the Beautiful, where four people tell Kirk Douglas’s story in flashbacks—but I love that movie and consider it an insult to compare it to Ava Gardner’s film. I don’t usually like movies told in flashbacks because the audience isn’t permitted to follow a linear story, and The Barefoot Contessa is no exception. I won’t spoil the plot, but whatever the audience learns about Ava is anticlimactic and a little boring.
Unless you really love Ava Gardner, this isn’t a classic I’d recommend watching. Personally, I prefer my Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.
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At the start of the movie, we see the attendants at Ava Gardner’s funeral. Four men, Humphrey Bogart, Rossano Brazzi, Edmond O’Brien, and Marius Goring, tell fragments of her life story to the audience in flashback. In a way, it reminds me of The Bad and the Beautiful, where four people tell Kirk Douglas’s story in flashbacks—but I love that movie and consider it an insult to compare it to Ava Gardner’s film. I don’t usually like movies told in flashbacks because the audience isn’t permitted to follow a linear story, and The Barefoot Contessa is no exception. I won’t spoil the plot, but whatever the audience learns about Ava is anticlimactic and a little boring.
Unless you really love Ava Gardner, this isn’t a classic I’d recommend watching. Personally, I prefer my Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Ava Gardner movies here!