Product: Ash Wednesday [VHS] (1973)
Rating: 5.0
A BAD MOVIE SO GOOD
One of the great campy films of the 70's. A glitz and glamour melodrama of an insecure wife (aren't they all in these types of films ?) who goes to Europe to get major cosmetic surgery to please her man and ends up bedding a gigolo as well. You'll have a ball watching la Liz (in Edith Head gowns) strutting her new and improved self while throwing such lines as "Look at these b------. Aren't they beautiful ? What more do you need ?" to her uninterested soon-to-be ex-husband, played by Henry Fonda. This so-bad-its-so-good moment is just one of many delivered in an otherwise non-existent plot. Maurice Jarre's syrupy score and Larry Peerce's gauzy soft focus direction set the exact tone for this great guilty pleasure that needs to be seen to be believed.-----Martin Boucher