Mia Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo

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“Mia Farrow seems just naturally stylized. Weightlessly beautiful, and with a considerable acting technique that she draws upon without the...

“In Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo, Mia Farrow is the Poor Little Match Girl of the Depression, a hollow-eyed waif whose bones have ...

“Finally, however, these shortcomings don't dampen the film at all, not only because Allen's invention soars through so much of it, ...

“…. The cast is good. Farrow is so drastically mousy, abetted by Jeffrey Kurland's clothes, that it underscores the power of her fantas...

“In The Purple Rose of Cairo, Mia Farrow gawks and stammers and cranes her pipe-cleaner neck. She's doing an impression but of whom? D...

“…. Cecilia is a kind of pathetic sociological construct--the Depression-movie fan for whom the pictures have become a substitute for life. ...

“By now, it is a subject for intense argument and legal dispute as to whether Woody did her good or ill…. She was in most of the films Allen...

“The Purple Rose of Cairo is only the second feature Allen has directed without appearing in it, and Farrow is clearly his alter ego. She ha...

“Mia Farrow, Allen's lady love and star, is her sweet, wistful self, never overwhelming, and Allen seems not only to acknowledge this, b...