Viva Maria!

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Viva Maria!
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NR,1hr 59min
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January 1, 1965
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United Artists
Synopsis: Two of the most beautiful women in the European cinema of the 1960s -- Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau -- team up under the direction of Louis Malle in this engaging comedy/adventure. Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley (Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin America with her father to take part in an anarchist political uprising. When her father is killed, Maria, left to her own devices, happens upon a traveling circus, where she strikes up a friendship with one ... Full Synopsis
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Louis Malle's first officially credited collaboration with the ingenious Jean-Claude Carrière never sinks below the level of sheer charm and good humor. But as Carrière affirmed years later in an interview, Viva Maria! suffers slightly from over-length and an overabundance of influences (contemporary feminism, children's European fantasy adventure yarns, tall tales, anticlericalism, cabaret life and ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley/Maria II
Maria I
Rodolfo
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