Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship....
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia.
Lise Lang ... assistant choreographer
Kenny Ortega ... choreographer
Gene Kelly ... choreography consultant (uncredited)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084445/
Watched online, blurry.
17 songs in the Soundtracks, all Written by Tom Waits, many sung by Crystal Gayle. Very jazzy, melancholy.
I don't like the story, nor is FF much of a leading man. But that's TG's problem in the film. She's been with him for 5 years, and he's not her idea of a leading man either. So she leaves him, and meets RJ, and they have a dancing date where the Vegas strip joins in.
TG was in 6 Elvis films and others of the era, often spotable dancing. It's nice that we get a film that showcased this skill.
The ending is unsatisfactory, since TG abandons her trip to the south Pacific with RJ, and returns to FF, but we see nothing beyond that moment of reunion. (I did like that he collected some of her things and intended to burn them in the fireplace, but couldn't do it. He's a good actor, I just wasn't happy he was the "star".)
The problem with having watched a blurry print (the only one I could find) is that this is a highly visual. It's all shot in studio, and is highly stylized. Makes me want to see it's true glory.
Update: I've watched everything on the 2-disc set (except the film with the normal soundtrack), and found the c.track with FFC charming, but disc 2 quite skippable. Some of the doc'ys were ok, but all the deleted scenes and rehearsal footage was just too much.
Zoetrope Studios, distr. Columbia, dir. Coppola; 7-
