Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
I'm Going to Buy This DVD!
I am a 60's pop culture fanantic and I am getting the DVD of "Rosemary's Baby" tomorrow for two reasons: I haven't seen the movie in over ten years-I saw it on cable when it was on USA in '95 and second I had a dream about the film the other night. I suppose it had something to do with the comment that I read in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY in which George Clooney believes that Hollywood becoming politicaly motivated is nothing new and points out that some of the greatest movies from 1963-76 dealt with the political problems America and the World faced and now face with these new bread of films. I think it was at that moment in my dream the movie "Rosemary's Baby" popped in my head. As for the movie itself? I think 'Baby' is just what Clooney was saying: It's a key film in a critical part of Hollywood's history. For me, it's more than a horror film-it's a metaphor of the saying "Be careful what you wish for." That is what happens to Mia Farrow's character (as you know by now her short hairstyle was modeled after Twiggy and it was this movie that caused her to get divorced to Frank Sinatra, and that wasn't no surprise): She wants a child to please her workaolic husband and ends with the worst-case scenario. The cover art that features the stroller and Farrow's face facing up (as if she's sleeping on the dilema) has to be considered one of the greatest movie posters in film history; ironically, Paramount would reprise this same technique a year later with "Downhill Racer" (The sports movie with Robert Redford and Gene Hackman). This DVD is a must for 60's lovers like me.