Viva Maria!
- warm
- kinetic
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
Our read · Viva Maria! (1965) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · adventure · western entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Viva Maria!
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a free-spirited 60s French adventure with Bardot, Moreau, revolution, and striptease invention.”
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The reading.
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