The Sandpiper

Posted 27 January 2007 in Screening log

Rating

1965 - US

Director
Vincente Minnelli

Starring
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

Out of nowhere, I decided to pursue a Liz Taylor/Richard Burton fixation… well, I think I’m over it already… This satisfies on that level, but otherwise it’s a silly hippie-preachy film with perhaps the most poorly motivated love affair I have ever witnessed… & it’s boring, if the Burton/Taylor thing isn’t the attraction. Blah. Hard to believe this is just one year before Who’s Afraid…

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