Recommended to us by a friend.
Specs:
Almost 2 1/2 hours; color
Our family's average rating on a scale of 1-10:
7.63
More about the film and our reaction to it:
Auntie Mame was a strange movie. By the end we all really liked it. While we were watching, we couldn't quite figure out what to think of it. It kept seeming like it had come to a close and several times during its run, I thought it had ended. But the story was simply told in chapters or vignettes that each told a piece. It covers an astonishing scope of time in the lives of these people, in good depth. It did feel long, though. And we began to feel that the ending was dragging on. This could be a function of the fact that we had already been tricked into thinkng the film was about to end several times before it actually did.
Throughout the whole is an astonishingly compelling performance by Rosalind Russel (who we had not seen since "His Girl Friday"). She has created a character that is burned in our brains - avant gaurd, lovably out of touch, caring and kind but totally free-spirited, she is the gem of the film.
The movie is at times silly, sad, absurd, frustrating, playful - but always compelling.
On a second viewing, I would probably appreciate it more, knowing how it is set up, what it does and where it's taking me
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