Coquette

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Louisa E The story is quite good, maybe a little slow-paced, but ok. What lets this movie down is the acting. I get that Mary Pickford would have had a "signature" acting style, but it made her look silly. The other actors weren't great either, and the whole thing felt like I was watching a terrible high school play. Mary didn't deserve the win here. 5/10 Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/08/23 Full Review Cameron M There some films that are dated but are enjoyable due to learning the evolution and innovation of filmmaking and there are some films that are a chore to watch due to offering very little to filmmaking. Coquette is a lot closer to the latter than the former due to the very stilted acting and very very boring story. Coquette, the central character is very annoying and one dimensional. However, Mary Pickford does put some life into the character as a result of some good acting scenes. I can understand why she won the Best Actress Oscar (although I haven't watched the other nominees). Every other character is ridiculously stupid and flat. Overall, some good cinematography for the time and a good performance from Mary Pickford cannot save this boring story and badly written film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/16/23 Full Review Audience Member The sound varies according to who is speaking. This was an important film historically speaking. It was Mary Pickford's first sound film and she did win a Best Actress Oscar for it. By today's standards she was not particularly good. This was extremely old fashioned and silly. Often lines were delivered as if this were an old time morality play being performed. Much of this seemed stagy and went on too long. Also, there were story elements that seemed contrived and stupid. The worst was at the end of the film when Pickford's father grabbed the gun which had been submitted into evidence for the courtroom scene. It was still loaded and they left it right where the accused murderer sat. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Steve D Overdone like no one has a grasp of this talking thing yet. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/03/23 Full Review bill t Kinda fun when you watch a movie you have absolutely no idea about, realize it's a bit of a stinker, and then you go on here and you confirm that. Mary Pickford stars in this absolute hootfest about a woman who falls madly in love with a bit of an undersirable man. He and her make promises to her father that they'll knock it off, but it soon heats up again, and the father takes action! Absolutely overwrought with plot, and containing much dialogue you wouldn't normally hear out of the mouths of sane humans (this was indeed a stage play first), it's only interesting feat is being an early talkie, and how far they needed to go to accomadate stories to such a medium. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Essential to film history. A 1929 film that can be watched the entire way through, despite all its obvious technological flaws. Mary Pickford could act. The technology she lived with kept changing from year to year, but Pickford made the changes stylishly. It's unfair to compare one of the first talkies with modern day movies. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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