Tuesday, December 18, 2018

DVD/150: MOMENT TO MOMENT (Mervyn LeRoy, 1966)

Jean Seberg's films are so rarely available that it is a pleasure to finally see one that she was the main star in, Mervyn LeRoy's 1966 thriller MOMENT TO MOMENT.


Yes it's a vehicle that would have fitted any 1960s actress but Seberg brings warmth and intelligence to it and is well partnered by Honor Blackman, fresh from GOLDFINGER.


Kay lives on the Riviera with her psychiatrist husband and son, and is friends with divorcee Daphne.  During one of husband Neil's absences, she befriends Mark, an American ensign.


She tries to keep Mark at arm's length but one night they make love, but when Kay tells him they must never meet again, his violence results in him being accidentally shot.


Kay and Beryl dump his body but when Neil returns home, the police ask him to interview a sailor recovering from a shooting but now amnesiac...


Hollywood hokum but watchable...


Shelf or charity shop?  An oddly unthrilling thriller but it's a keeper for radiant Jean, looking wonderful in Yves Saint-Laurent.

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