Saturday, May 29, 2010

Denise Milani Harcore

Gentlewoman Farmer

by BBJane Hudson

All good things come to an end, I must reluctantly conclude this series of posts dedicated to mothers treacherous, and let our dear progenitor enjoy with impunity the festive day dedicated to them. This is not the matter that we lack, to Valentine and myself, to continue our fruitful fatal exhaustion of the film being particularly Camp prodigal specimens edifying.


Two examples "Campy Mothers"


To finish off, I leave you in the company of Mrs. Lilian FARMER, who, not content be one of the representatives of the Tyranny Vachard mother on screen, has the luxury of having truly existed in real life and no special effects in real life, where she worked to spoil her daughter, the 'Hollywood actress Frances Farmer .
The story is well known since Graeme Clifford dedicated to a starlet experiencing biopic simply titled Frances, who received a mixed reception in the U.S., but was a notable success in Europe and spent his young interpreter, Jessica Lange , as one of the actresses most gifted of his generation. To punish her daughter for giving up her film career and fame related, Lilian do not hesitate to detain several times in squalid settlements where the unfortunate turn was drugged, cobayisée , raped, and eventually lobotomized.


Left: the cause (the real Ma and Frances Farmer), right: the effect (Frances en route to the shirt).


It must be said that the insistence of the young woman to return to the bosom of his har after each of asylum is as astounding as appalling, and eventually pull the viewer less compassionate (such as your servant) thinking that "after all, she asked for it ..."




28 years after its implementation, CLIFFORD movie, once hailed for its dramatic intensity, seems like a good old fashioned family melodrama, full of soaring lacrimal, hysterical confrontations and unpacking nauseous, with a good dose extrapolations scriptwriting (known as lobotomy Frances FARMER existed only in the imaginations of authors) and just the right amount of trash to distinguish itself from its venerable models.


Kim Stanley (left) with Jessica Lange (right)

Kim Stanley was appointed to the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for his composition stepmother stubbornly castrating. With this service, that his biographer Jon KRAMPNER designated as "the female Brando" will be remembered by film buffs as one of the most odious harpies of American cinema of eighties.
Enjoy! ...
(And much to all the moms !...)


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