Cactus Flower is one of those DOA swinging comedies of the late '60s, usually French-based, with middle-aged stars (plus Oscar-winning saucer-eyed ingenue Hawn) and talent sweating to seem "with it." Ingrid Bergman is certainly game, and has a breakthrough moment erotically smothering herself in a black mink. (A stage hit for Billy Wilder's frequent coscribe Izzy Diamond... BW sorely missed, esp the touch of vulgar class supplied later in Avanti!.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
She can handle badinage, of course, but she can't do comedy, light or otherwise.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
I thought she had a couple good snippy scenes w/ Jack Weston in the Bourgeois '60s Disco (altho he gets off most of the shots, like "you look like a giant Band-Aid in the office"}. But yeah it's pretty grievous. She's funny in Orient Express if you choose to view it that way.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
She's game in the otherwise (very) minor Elena and Her Men, but the mugging in MOTOE is hard to take.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
In the filming of Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman said Ingrid kept trying to insert jokes in her dialogue, to which Ingmar said NO JOKES. A wise man.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
but she can't do comedy, light or otherwise.
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
a lot of ppl find Ingmar at his straightest funny already
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
anyway the thing about Cactus Flower et al is they were about the squares, who bought the tickets.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
I love Goldie Hawn, but she seemed to make nothing but bad films up till Sugarland Express. (Never seen Cactus Flower for some reason, but There's a Girl in My Soup and Butterflies are Free are pretty dismal, from what I remember.)
― clemenza, Friday, 29 May 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
Checked the Goldie Hawn thread I started, and I say there I have seen Cactus Flower. Don't remember so much as an image.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 May 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
I don’t think I ever saw that or Butterflies Are Free, just vaguely remember the posters/ads.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link