Awesome technique. Non-verbal communication to top the real thing, in the real world, and it bests even some accomplished "silent" era masters.
Great to see Hepburn. Sad to see her in a role that mimic-ed her real life at the time.
Some good laughs. Ritter is in top physical comedy form. If he wasn't trying to be such a stand in for Bogdanovich his verbal performance might have matched his physical performance.
But that's the problem, here. A little too much of the real world got in and colors the whole thing: The affairs surrounding the film, the murder of Stratten who would have otherwise been forgotten, and the director's eventual affair with both sisters.
Leave all that aside, however, and the laughs are fun. Otherwise, there is very little that this movie has to say. Dalliance palliates. The end.
Great to see Hepburn. Sad to see her in a role that mimic-ed her real life at the time.
Some good laughs. Ritter is in top physical comedy form. If he wasn't trying to be such a stand in for Bogdanovich his verbal performance might have matched his physical performance.
But that's the problem, here. A little too much of the real world got in and colors the whole thing: The affairs surrounding the film, the murder of Stratten who would have otherwise been forgotten, and the director's eventual affair with both sisters.
Leave all that aside, however, and the laughs are fun. Otherwise, there is very little that this movie has to say. Dalliance palliates. The end.
