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Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1956 Cinderella story, with Ava Gardner as a peasant waif elevated to international star status by producer Humphrey Bogart, a thinly veiled Mankiewicz stand-in. It's overlong, talky, and sometimes stolid, but these are all familiar Mankiewicz failings. He shines in his deft verbal wit and novelistic propensity for detail, backlit by a highly personal blend of romance and cynicism. An imperfect film, but its excesses are as suggestive as its subtleties.

Sorry there are no showtimes for The Barefoot Contessa on Friday, May 24.

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