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Savaged by the critics, but oddly enjoyable if you're in the mood for wallowing in sentiment and outrageous histrionics from the star - and she certainly can sing. Evergreen won an Oscar; also nominated were Robert Surtees (photography) and Roger Kelleway (music underscoring).
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Starring with Streisand is an experience which may have cured me of movies.
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A bore is starred.
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| Streisand's notion of acting is to bulldoze her way from one end of a line to the other without regard for anyone or anything; you can literally feel her impatience for the other performer to stop taIking so she can take over again. If dialogue there is, it is that between a steamroller and the asphalt beneath it... And then I realize with a gasp that this Barbra Streisand is in fact beloved above all other female stars by our moviegoing audiences; that this hypertrophic ego and bloated countenance are things people shell out money for as for no other actress; that this progressively more belligerent caterwauling can sell anything — concerts, records, movies. And I feel as if our entire society were ready to flush itself down in something even worse than a collective death wish — a collective will to live in ugliness and self-debasement." |
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The film looks very like an ego-trip for a superstar.
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A clear case for the Monopolies Commission.
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Updating and transposing the story-line from Hollywood to the rock world was a grave mistake; the plot's hackneyed pattern of intertwined careers... simply does not suit the unglamorous world of monster open-air concerts, thunderous decibels, drugs and groupies... The present script is distinguished only by large amounts of foul language and even larger amounts of addled sentimentality.
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| (Geoff Brown, Monthly Film Bulletin) |
(HARVARD LAMPOON AWARD - WORST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR), Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky
