It really is what everyone has said it is, the role of a lifetime for Sally Kirkland -- especially if she wanted a feature-length screen test for a second career in Eastern Europe. She plays a once famous film star in Czechoslovakia, who's now a nobody in New York; a peasant fan of hers (fashion model Paulina Porizkova), with no English and bad teeth, comes to meet her, learns some English, gets new teeth, and is soon on the road to Hollywood. Pretty maudlin stuff. And hideously maudlin when the heroine goes to one of her old films in a Manhattan art house, and her big closeup burns up in the projector gate -- again and again and again. Written by Agnieszka Holland; directed by Yurek Bogayevicz. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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