Donald Clarke: Cannes film festival has gone wild for the biggest star of 1995. Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?
“I didn’t know you were planning a comeback,” Joe Gillis remarks to Norma Desmond. “I hate that word,” the grand dame replies. “It’s a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.”
Never mind all that. The point is that Moore has made one of the great film comebacks. If the material is not deemed too robust she could even be in the running for an Oscar nomination. Why her? Will she build on the success? What does history tell us?It is fair to point out that Moore hasn’t exactly been living in a cave. She has made about a film a year this century. With the best will in the world, however, few are the moviegoers who rave about Corporate Animals , Wild Oats or Forsaken .
Yet there is a warning for her within The Substance. It is also there in Sunset Blvd. Both films are actually about the dilemma their stars are processing. Norma Desmond is a forgotten actor from silent cinema. Elisabeth Sparkle, protagonist of The Substance, is driven to her desperate actions by the awareness that a 50-year-old woman may as well be 100 in this business. Travolta was barely 40 when Pulp Fiction hit .
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