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Rampling is the weakest link

posted 15 years ago by onepotato2
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She isn't very good and doesn't seem to know where to point her eyes ...how to hold a beat, etc. Her performance is flat and vacant.

The movie is a pretty interesting experiment though.

[–] hoyo-mont 14 years ago

Her character is weak, but so is the whole movie. It got a little better when her character shows up thought, because she's so damn good looking. This movie was horrible.

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[–] Prismark10 13 years ago

Rampling was hot but she also does not chew the scenery. There is nothing wrong with being subtle and Rampling cannot be accused of being a bad actress.

Its that man again!!

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[–] onegreendress 13 years ago

I think she was quite good playing a one-note, opportunistic woman and an interesting contrast to the Sylvia Miles character, also a one-note....but it's a film noir and what are the women to do? I quite like the movie--it's steady and frank and no-nonsense.

[–] -501 13 years ago

Each to his own, but I thought Rampling was quite good and played a memorable character. It also does not hurt that she looks quite a bit like reincarnated version of a young Lauren Bacall.

[–] tesab-1 11 years ago

I was thinking that she was excellent and did a better job than Lauren Bacall could have done! The head down, looking up through her lashes, her come-hither looks. Very good.

[–] Soujurn 10 years ago

I think Charlotte Rampling is a refreshing element in this picture.
Rampling was basically playing Lauren Bacall from To Have And Have Not. And doing a damn good job of it too. She exudes lust and is the perfect fem fatale.

I'm just sorry Marlowe didn't take her up on her seduction and then drop her.
I think that would have been a nice plot twist. Then she could try to emotionally blackmail Marlowe by threatening to tell Malloy the details.

Even though Mitchum was twice her age here (at 58), and probably should have been played by someone 10 to 15 years younger, Charlotte's character was married to a much older man. Yes, it was his money and status she wanted, but she must have had some "older man" issues as well to want to sleep with Marlowe.

Basically I think there should have been much more to her place in the picture.

[–] Woodyanders 9 years ago

I thought Charlotte Rampling made for a perfectly seductive and duplicitous femme fatale.

I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find

[–] liscarkat (18541) 6 years ago

She had obviously studied all of Bacall's early performances and did a good job in the Bacall role.

[–] LTUM (1037) 5 years ago

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