Extremely elaborate, expensive, lavish attempt to tell the story of a famous 19th century courtesan through the device of circus. This was my second attempt at watching this supposed classic (Andrew Sarris) and again I failed. Or it did.
I found it annoying, loud, asinine, disjointed...basically wrongly conceived. There are many ways to tell the story of a life...even creative ones...that don't rely on Peter Ustinov screaming out the chapters every five minutes in front of a non-existent audience. It didn't help that a woman pushing 40 was asked to play an ingenue in the early sequences...but that's a minor quibble. Mostly I just couldn't stand this film and lasted an hour before running screaming across the room to make it stop.
3...for costumes and set design
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