title: LILITH
score: *1/2
Now if this movie were really good, or great, or somewhat daring, they'd
have cast an actress who wasn't a perfect 10 (like Jean Seberg) to play a young woman who
seems to "mysteriously" enchant all the males (and one sultry female) in the mental home where
rich crazy people live, and sporadically, annoyingly cackle in random group sessions, and where Warren
Beatty works, and of course being so handsome, falls for the titular
enchantress who's as beautiful as he is: Why on Earth else would this movie matter? And yet it doesn't matter really at all... And if
this insanely gorgeous girl were hanging out at a rat hole bus stop in
downtown Toledo she'd "enchant" just the same: only there wouldn't be such
artistic depth to rely on: But in a movie, be it art-house or mainstream, characters need to be genuinely interested to be interesting. Not even a young Gene Hackman doing an off-kilter Andy Griffith impression leaves much an impression... But he and Warren would work together again... Here, though, both seem like guests at someone else's funeral...
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