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The Barefoot Contessa (1954)iMDB Rating: 7.1
Date Released : 29 September 1954
Genre : Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Stars : Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring. 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 ..." />
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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 murdering her mother. It was Maria's testimony that got him off and she was a bigger star than ever. Alberto Bravano, one of the richest men is South America, sets his sights on Maria she goes off with him - as much to make Edwards angry as anything - but he treats her badly. When she meets Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini they fall deeply in love. They are married but theirs is not to be a happy life.

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It Was Raining At The Funeral

This movie sucks so bad! Bogart and Edmond O'Brien do their best, and there are a lot of snappy one-liners about the movie business. But Ava Gardner is lifeless, the story makes no sense, and the whole thing just oozes "tragedy" in the most artificial sense of the word.

Here's a taste of what THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA is really like:

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It was raining at the funeral. I stood alone in my trench coat, wondering why Maria had to die. Wondering what made her life different from a cheap movie script. Wondering why the most stunningly beautiful woman who ever lived had to throw herself at an old drunk, a gay count, and some random gypsy with a guitar.

Was it the men she loved? Or the love she threw away? Was it the animal in her? Or the beast in the heart of every woman? The questions made no sense. The answers had no meaning. Life is like that. Life, the opposite of death. Not the cereal, or the magazine.

Maria never had cereal for breakfast growing up. She crawled out of a Spanish sewer and instantly became a star. But a part of her still craved the stench of life. The passion. The forbidden filth.

Perhaps the billionaires who pursued her weren't filthy enough. Or was it a different kind of filth? Some filth you can't find in a sewer. Only on the Riviera, or in Hollywood. Maria was pure, too pure for Hollywood. Except when the beast in her sent her running for the filth she once called home. But all of that was just water down the drain.

It was raining at the funeral. I stood alone in my trench coat. Waiting for the end of the movie.