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Title: Waiting for the Moon (15 Jun 1987)
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| Jacques Boudet | ... |
Guillaume Apollinaire
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| Andrew McCarthy | ... | ||
| Bernadette Lafont | ... |
Fernande Olivier
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Adolfo Vargas | ... |
Pablo Picasso
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Pierre-Alain Chapuis | ... |
Priest
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Daniel Langlet | ... |
Monsieur Thiele
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Michèle Gleizer | ... |
Madame Thiele
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| K.C. Schulberg | ... |
Stage Manager
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Pascal Cambon | ... |
Sound Effects Man
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Liliane Rovère | ... |
Bordello Madame
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Brigitte Bellac | ... |
Prostitute
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Jean Achache | ... |
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Sundance prizewinner. Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in. Written by trivwhiz
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The richness and romance of the lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein is poorly and bitterly portrayed in Waiting For The Moon. It is no wonder that the video went out-of-print before the ink was dried on the boxes.
The stately and mannish Gertrude is played by a pretty and starry-eyed Linda Bassett. Alice, her demure and gypsy-like lover and secretary, is played by a sharp-tongued, tantrum-throwing Linda Hunt - looking more like Gertrude's grandmother than her paramour.
This is not a happy film, although its intention may be otherwise, and for Stein-aholics and Toklas-aphiles it is a huge disappointment. One of the most beautiful romances of this century deserves a portrayal better than this.