Product: Rosemary's Baby (El Bebe de Rosemary) [ NON-USA FORMAT, NTSC, Reg.4 Import - Latin America ] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
My Favorite Movie
It's hard to believe Rosemary's Baby was filmed almost 40 years ago. I've seen it more times than I can count, and each time I watch it I see something new. Roman Polanski put his heart and soul into every frame of this movie, and all his hard work shows.I love the look of the movie -- the elegant but delapidated Bramford/Dakota with its gothic gargoyles, the Woodhouse apartment with its midcentury modern furniture and sunny yellow color scheme, Mia Farrow's preppie wardrobe of shifts and miniskirts, the outdoor shots of 60's New York.The casting was great. Mia Farrow was a sweet, vulnerable and increasingly disturbed Rosemary. Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer were perfectly cast as the mismatched Castavets --she coarse, nosey, and over the top; he distinguished and in control. Even the most minor characters Hope Summers (Clara on Andy Griffith), Andrea Dorian (a former Playmate of the Year), Tony Curtis (playing the voice of Donald Baumgart) were absolutely right.However, I wish Guy Woodhouse had been played by a different actor. Jack Nicholson and Robert Redford were both considered for the part. I'm not sure they'd be the best choice, but John Casavettes wasn't either.