[CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: THE LOOK screens Thursday February 9th at 8:45 pm and Saturday February 11th at 7:20 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Would you like to spend an hour and a half listening to English actress Charlotte Rampling talk about her life and career? Certainly as far as acting careers go, hers has been one of the more interesting. Rampling has always steered clear of the kind of films most people regard as “entertainment”, preferring instead to tackle complicated and controversial parts, often with strong sexual overtones.
Among Rampling's credits is THE NIGHT PORTER, a movie in which she plays a woman who had been imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II. After the war, she winds up resuming a relationship with one of the guards. In MAX MY LOVE, her character falls in love with a chimp. Probably her most mainstream roles were in Woody Allen's STARDUST MEMORIES and Sidney Lumet's THE VERDICT, but these are the exceptions. She continues to play the kind of rich leading roles most actresses would kill for well into her sixties, notably in a pair of films for Francois Ozon; UNDER THE SAND and SWIMMING POOL.
