A Matter of Time

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Audience Member The current showing copy of the film on TCM seems to have bad quality. But Bergman's late performance is worth to watch anyway. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member So much talent behind and in front of the camera to lay such a big egg. The whole thing reeks of decay and that seeps into the tenor of the film. Liza is all over the place and only registers in a positive way twice, in the final hospital scene and most of all during the musical performance of the song Do It Again-really her only powerful moment. Of interest more for its cast of second generation performers than any merit or entertainment value of the actual film. Beside Liza there's a brief appearance of Isabella Rossellini in her screen bow and as Liza's cousin Tina Aumont, who was the daughter of B movie star Maria Montez and Jean-Pierre Aumont. Nonsensical mess was the unfortunate swan song of both Vincente Minnelli and Charles Boyer. Such a missed opportunity. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member hands down vincente minnelli's worst pic and his last too bad he ended it with this mess. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I found myself positively bored out of my mind. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Sad end to the great career of Vincent Minnelli. Awful editing, silly performance by Liza, not much music - a waste of time. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member What a travesty. First they took a beautiful book called The Film of Memory by Maurice Druon; they stripped it of all its' poetry and drama and everything unique and interesting about it. Then they hired Liza Minnelli to play a part she was wrong for; and, frankly, did the same thing for Ingrid Bergman - only for Ingrid they added insult to injury by putting her in a ridiculous white wig that didn't match her black painted on eyebrows. They wrote in ridiculous fantasy sequences for Liza Minnelli, trying to make her appear as a woman so sexy as to be one of Europe's great courtesan. Then they dressed her in costumes so appalling (in these fantasy sequences) that they look like rejects from the Crazy Horse Saloon at Six Flags Over Texas. Then they gave these two legendary and talented women dialogue that wouldn't sound good if you were watching the non-dubbed version in an Iraqi jail cell and didn't speak English. Then they made them dub half their lines. Then they surrounded them with local European actors and looped in all the English lines with the delicacy of a bulldozer in a tissue paper shop. To frost the cake on this unholy mess, they gave Liza three songs -- two written for the movie, one a classic, none of which belong in the picture, none of which fit. Even a Liza Minnelli fan (of which I am one of the biggest) cannot help but roll their eyes and say "Her FATHER did this to her!" Have mercy Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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