Movie stars are not getting old! The play by Tennessee Williams “Sweet Bird of Youth” is a godsend for famous actresses at an age when beauty is gone, and you still want to work in theater and cinema. The role is chic with subtext and great creative potential. Film star Alexandra Del Lago concocted that her role in the last film failed and, hooked up on the beach, decided to hide and experience a dark streak in life, enjoying love pleasures with a man younger than her twice. This role is played by Elizabeth Taylor herself. And performs it not to say that brilliant, but rather decent and professional.
The play was very significantly remade by the writers of this film, so that the star of American cinema appeared on the screen more often, in almost every scene. They rewrote and completed the dialogues for the actress so that she would say almost winged phrases, as if about all women who, having lost their beauty, are forced to continue living.
The main character Alexandra Del Lago said very aphoristically: “To live is to change, who does not change, he is already dead.” Or here’s another pearl: “In passing youth, we must continue to move forward.”
I said to myself, like, don’t write me off, I will continue to act in films, I’m still an acting movie star.
The role of Alphonse was played by actor Mark Hermon. He is 31 years old but looks 10 years older. But his smile is chic, white-toothed, Hollywood. In the film, his hero for past sins was castrated, in the play, Tennessee Williams did not allow such a twist of events. I will not blame the writers for such freedom. To my taste, the play is boring and tedious, that is why the filmmakers decided to revive it with something. The film was watched with interest, the feeling that lost time, no.
7 out of 10