I assure you, you will have a great time watching all of the beautiful outfits and settings that Elizabeth Taylor here plays in a film that could be called a semi biography of her later life. She plays it straight, isn't braying and has such a gentiluty about her dad you have the urge to hug her to pull her out of her loneliness. as the aging wife of Henry Fonda, she travels all over Europe after having her face lifted and finds that simply being a beautiful woman in furs and jewels doesn't necessarily make her happy.
There truly is no real plotline, just a series of meaningless encounters with the so-called beautiful people, yet she is never really satisfied with her strings of lovers, longing for a reunion with her husband which does not occur until the last 20 minutes of the film. He is graying and feeling the aches and pains of age, yet her insecurities tell her that she looks better than she does even having undergone the knife. The surgery scene itself is rather gruesome and shows the skin being pulled, a few open portions of the face, and then finally a scarred Liz preparing for the miracle to happen to her looks.
Certainly sumptuous to look at and filled with a great musical score by George Delarue, this isn't bad in the sense of a hideous script and outlandish dialogue, but often just dull and pointless. A few classic standards like "Moonlight Becomes You" and "The Nearness of You" fill the background with romance, but that only emphasizes the shallowness of her existence. it's a beautiful time capsule into the life of a great star whose legend will live forever, but the ironies considering Liz's past, present and future following this makes for questionable art and adds a bit of uncomfortably to snooping in on a celebrity who once reigned as the most famous woman in the world.
There truly is no real plotline, just a series of meaningless encounters with the so-called beautiful people, yet she is never really satisfied with her strings of lovers, longing for a reunion with her husband which does not occur until the last 20 minutes of the film. He is graying and feeling the aches and pains of age, yet her insecurities tell her that she looks better than she does even having undergone the knife. The surgery scene itself is rather gruesome and shows the skin being pulled, a few open portions of the face, and then finally a scarred Liz preparing for the miracle to happen to her looks.
Certainly sumptuous to look at and filled with a great musical score by George Delarue, this isn't bad in the sense of a hideous script and outlandish dialogue, but often just dull and pointless. A few classic standards like "Moonlight Becomes You" and "The Nearness of You" fill the background with romance, but that only emphasizes the shallowness of her existence. it's a beautiful time capsule into the life of a great star whose legend will live forever, but the ironies considering Liz's past, present and future following this makes for questionable art and adds a bit of uncomfortably to snooping in on a celebrity who once reigned as the most famous woman in the world.