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A Matter of Time

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During a press conference, international star Nina (Liza Minnelli) remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani (Ingrid Bergman), an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani (Charles Boyer). Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
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Pauline Kael The New Yorker The ideas don't mesh, and even allowing for the evisceration by the producers, the John Gay script shifts between old-fogey full about women as the inspirers of genius and hew-fogey speechifying about the plight of women. Jan 19, 2024 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The movie just doesn't hold together... And yet we sit in this failed movie and give our attention to Ingrid Bergman, and there is a certain consolation. Rated: 2/4 Oct 30, 2018 Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker A bittersweet masterwork about the raging and frustrated passions of old age. Aug 3, 2015 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) We shall archive this as a disastrous family matter. [Full review in Spanish] Aug 15, 2023 Full Review Donald McLean Bay Area Reporter An embarrassment for all concerned. May 21, 2020 Full Review LAFP Staff Los Angeles Free Press This film is, such an embarrassment to everyone involved (except Bergman) that it makes Lucky Lady seem like Gone With The Wind. Oct 29, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 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 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 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I found myself positively bored out of my mind. 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 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 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis During a press conference, international star Nina (Liza Minnelli) remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani (Ingrid Bergman), an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani (Charles Boyer). Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Producer
Samuel Z. Arkoff, Edmund Grainger, Jack H. Skirball, Orazio Tassara
Screenwriter
John Gay
Production Co
American International Pictures (AIP)
Rating
PG
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 6, 2020
Runtime
1h 39m
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