Gilda | Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford | a femme fatale from the forties, frozen forever on film

Gilda | Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford | Gilda - 5 stars aren't enough

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Gilda

	Gilda Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford Sony Pictures, 2000 average customer review:based on 76 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a femme fatale from the forties, frozen forever on film

I am in my 50's and was born and raised in the '50s. My father used to tell me that, in the '40s, he had "fallen in love" with the actress Rita Hayworth from watching her movies. I didn't get it.
Flash forward to the new millenium. In David Lynch's enigmatic and erotic masterpiece "Mulholland Drive", a beautiful brunette amnesiac sees a movie poster of "Gilda", starring Rita Hayworth, on a bathroom wall and spontaneously takes the name "Rita" for herself. Why? Was there any significance or meaning in that choice of movie posters?...that choice of names? You bet your sweet sex goddess there was!
David Lynch knew what my father knew: Rita Hayworth was a hottie to men returning from World War II, and in "Gilda", it is captured for all time. Now I get it. Gilda is what did it. A "wild child" before the term was coined, Rita Hayworth radiates like a Chernobyl of sensuality.
See this movie and you'll find out what your grandfather, your father, David Lynch, and I found out!

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Gilda - 5 stars aren't enough

In real life, Rita Hayworth was apparently "painfully shy". If so, she deserves the title, "Goddess of Acting" to go with her "Goddess of Love" nickname. Her performance as Gilda is lots of things, none of which is shy. She's off-scale beautiful/wild and shows, once again, why she was Fred Astaire's favorite dance partner (sorry, Ginger).

Glen Ford, as Johnny, plays a complex bundle of inconsistencies in regards to Gilda and makes it believable. There's an underlying theme of self-destruction by the principles in this "film noir" (black film), but it has a good twist at the end.

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Rita is the reason to buy this movie!

This movie is all about Rita, if you are a Rita Hayworth admirer this movie cannot be missed. I had a good giggle at some of the dialogue. The cinematography is art in motion, completely beautiful to watch.

Hate is the Only Thing That Warms Me....................

This film is a prime example of how a superb cast of actors can save a mediocre screenplay. The story as another reviewer has noted is utterly nosensical in almost every way, but that is part of the charm of the film. Much of the dialouge between the characters is campy. The highlight of the film is Rita Hayworth singing " Put The Blame on Mame ", This film is one of the best of the Film Noir films of the 40's and it was without a doubt the performance of Rita Hayworth's career.

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"Johnny. I hate you so much I think I'm going to die from it."

Indeed. I've hated women like that too, it usually translated into some of the most passionate sex and most ardent damage to my home, cars, golf clubs, shoes, life, etc. haw haw

The best of the "Holy Cripes, look who's working for my new husband in an Argentine Casino" Noir-nivals. Rita Hayworth is absolutely stunning in the role as Gilda, and the chemistry and tension between her and Johnny Farrell (Ford) is incredible. You know instantaneously when they are reunited that somebody got hosed pretty badly, and the hosing aint over cause thats just what follows these two.

A 5 star flick except for the last 20-30 minutes which lapses into total predictability, and the underlying attraction between Hayworth's husband (Ballin) and Johnny Farrell. Fantastic black and white clean transfer, and a ten minute featurette on Hayworth's career. A devoted heterosexual declares this film 4 Keys.

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