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Moment to Moment |
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Moment to Moment  Rating: Rating:  - Soapy MelodramaKay Stanton (Jean Seberg) takes her young son to market with her before school, and he befriends a sailor on leave. Mark Dominic (Sean Garrison) loves to sketch, he wants to become an architect, and the area is too beautiful to pass up. Kay gives him a ride to a tower he wanted a better look at, but they get side tracked along the way and enjoy lunch together. Kay is hesitant because her husband (Arthur Hill) is away, but she indulges in a few dates with Mark. One night, things go too far, and the only person Kay can trust is her kooky neighbor next door (Honor Blackman). Moment to Moment is a glorified soap opera complete with hazy photography, beautiful people, and silly situations, but I liked it in spite of myself. The melodramatic story is gripping, even though you can guess what is going to happen. There are hints planted everywhere. All of the actors give good performances, but Seberg and Blackman are the most enjoyable. Seberg's beauty is heightened by her classy wardrobe designed by Yves Saint Laurent. Rating:  - Snoozy Suspense Drama Cries Out for Hitchcock's Touch"Moment to Moment" is a movie that screams for edgier writing & direction. Brought to you by Mervyn LeRoy (Wizard of Oz), the plot has Hitchcock written all over it: A "good" woman whose husband is frequently away on business is driven by loneliness to have an adulterous affair, during which she accidentally shoots her temporary paramour --then hides his body with the help of her nosy neighbor, trying all the while to conceal her "crime" from investigators and ultimately from her husband and son. "Moment to Moment" could have been a wickedly funny, suspenseful and clever concoction in the "Rear Window" vein. But the comic as well as the dramatic possibilities of the premise are apparently lost on LeRoy, who seems so bent on delivering a product which can offend no one, that he inadvertently heads off all the most interesting possibilities at the pass. The most obvious casualty is Seberg's performance in the lead role. Over-coiffed and over-coutured, she sleepwalks through a series of pastel scenes with a tight-lipped and fixed expression that recalls Jessica Lang's lobotomized Frances Farmer in the last scenes of "Frances". Under LeRoy's direction, Seberg--magical in her best films-- is an attractive but drab presence here. When Tippi Hedren or Grace Kelly played cool society blondes-in-a-jam, they seasoned their placid characterizations with the suggestion of inner turmoils, hidden agendas, By contrast, Seberg is all surface here, completely lacking the inner fire apparent in her earlier work. Where is the Tinkerbellish, dimpled pixie of "Breathless", the feline duplicity of "Bonjour Tristesse" or the lurking malevolence of "Lilith"? Here she is merely pretty, a decorative ornament in a movie full of decorative ornaments. What Hitchcock could have provided, and which the movie sorely needs, is one of two things: a) a more complex character (either written or suggested), or a scene in which Seberg's character completely unravels. This would have given a seeming point to her flatness elsewhere in the film. It's a cinematic axiom that characters this quick-frozen must at some point in the plot be melted--undone, deconstructed, ravaged. "Moment" ignores this axiom, and suffers all the more for it. Only Honor Blackman is vivid as comic relief in a secondary role as Seberg's nosy neighbor and partner-in-crime, offering the film's only indelible character. Blackman, at least, is willing to go out on a limb in a movie which takes no risks, easily stealing the show from both her co-stars and the plot in which they flounder. Rating:  - a 'Moment' in time - 1966I remember this film, way back in 1966, it was on one of our local movie stations in NY. I was only 11 years old when I saw it. But the impression it left was--I would love to live a life like that. The story, acting and the actors in this was over the top, Seberg was gorgeous, Garrison was too handsome, and Blackman was as good as she was in GOLDFINGER. Arthur Hill played the typical "husband". Always like Hill too. A real classy, modern love triangle. I sound flip, but I really enjoyed this film. And also it was before 4-letter words and explicit sex on screen(Yuk), so it made for a more innocent time and Mancini's music added to the beauty of this flic. Really good, hope it comes to DVD sometime soon. Rating: - This movie has everythingArthur Hill, Honor Blackman, the stunning Jean Seberg and a Mancini sountrack, are part of this well kept secret called Moment to Moment. I saw this movie about seven months ago and have been trying to locate a copy since then. I loved the whole movie especially the part at the outdoor cafe when the doves fly off. Honor Blackman was great as the carefree neighbor and Arthur Hill the neglectful husband. But Jean Seberg's portrayal of the neglected wife was terrific. I'm going to add this to my collection. A Fan, S.A.Thompson, Author of What's Done In The Dark |
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