Jodie Foster: The Beach Chronicles. Italy It would be more accurate to say that we will not be on the beach as such. Almost the entire film space will be reduced to a spacious beach locker room. This is where a lot of uncomplicated dialogues and flat jokes mainly on a sexual topic take place. Another Italian mini-decameron. Refined Mariangela Melato will obsessively show off her hips to everyone. Jodie Foster will pester such a young Michele Placido with a request to make love and accordingly call himself the father of the unborn child. Hugo Tognazzi will routinely slip in his respectable manner. And of course, Franco Chitti will take the position of a rough, uncouth man.
So, nothing particularly exquisite is expected here. However, the small appearance of Catherine Deneuve and the very fact of participation in the film Jodie Foster says a lot. Catherine, as befits fairies will come in a dream to one of the heroes, giving the tape a taste of surrealism. Jodie, who wasn’t even 20 years old, was actually the star of the movie. Not so often in those years, Americans in the heyday of popularity filmed in Italy. And, no matter what, on Foster's part, the whole role was reduced to a well-designed, but artless, cliché of a smart cutie, an adult girl with a secret. It is important that she, unlike many of her previous films, was a prima. Her smile was meant to illuminate the film. She did. This exam was brilliantly passed. The star was born of course in the Taxi Driver, but then her stardom was established.
6 out of 10