I attempted to watch this movie last night because I've always been a fan of Joan Fontaine, and I have just finished reading her rather strange autobiography.
I struggled through about 20 minutes of it. With an outstanding cast, The Constant Nymph should have been a good movie. Instead I found it one of the most abysmal films I've ever tried to watch. I could barely understand the actors in the first scene as their accents were so thick. The following scenes, supposedly set at a Swiss chalet, looked movie studio fake. Joan Fontaine's performance was grating and ridiculous, the dialogue sounded stilted and the whole effect was that of a high school play written by a student. Andy Hardy's play in Andy Gets Spring Fever was better!
Lastly, it wasn't the subject matter or Boyer's thick accent that bothered me because growing up Gigi was my favorite movie and I had a crush on Louis Jourdan. The Constant Nymph, however, seemed like a really bad play put on film.
I struggled through about 20 minutes of it. With an outstanding cast, The Constant Nymph should have been a good movie. Instead I found it one of the most abysmal films I've ever tried to watch. I could barely understand the actors in the first scene as their accents were so thick. The following scenes, supposedly set at a Swiss chalet, looked movie studio fake. Joan Fontaine's performance was grating and ridiculous, the dialogue sounded stilted and the whole effect was that of a high school play written by a student. Andy Hardy's play in Andy Gets Spring Fever was better!
Lastly, it wasn't the subject matter or Boyer's thick accent that bothered me because growing up Gigi was my favorite movie and I had a crush on Louis Jourdan. The Constant Nymph, however, seemed like a really bad play put on film.