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Laura Gemser is a revelation in this!

posted 18 years ago by JohnnyOldSoul
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Cult film actress Laura Gemser (billed here under the unfortunate moniker "Moira Chen") might seem an unlikely choice for an American made-for-tv film like "Love is Forever," but she really does prove that she is a very, very good actress!

I've always felt it was a shame that the fact that she appeared nude in several films (some were pretty bad movies, I will admit) people have minimized both her acting ability and her impact on pop culture (especially in Europe.) Not only is she strikingly beautiful, she also had range, and when given a decent script could do wonders with it. Even in bad films, she made them watchable with her charm and winning screen personality.

I'm very pleased that Gemser had the opportunity to participate in this film. She is a class act, and proves it in any picture where she is given the opportunity to do so.

[–] muzilon 15 years ago

Was this her only mainstream or "serious" film?

[–] Bobby Briggs Briganza (485) 8 years ago

I'm not sure if you'd consider _Bushido Blade_ to be mainstream/serious, but perhaps.

The "Ator" films are PG, and mainstream in some sense, but it's hard to take them seriously!

[–] IceboxMovies 14 years ago

She is... quite bad in this film. But then again, Hall Bartlett--who usually made movies with great actors, from Dana Andrews in Zero Hour! to Anthony Quinn in The Children of Sanchez--was not given a very strong cast to work with when he set out to make this movie. That Jurgen guy is really the only person who's actually well-cast.

"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."

[–] Bobby Briggs Briganza (485) 8 years ago

It's good to hear her natural speaking voice in this. In most films she's dubbed. Possibly, in some of those films, it is her own voice that is dubbed (since dubbing is part of the process), but it's often hard to tell. I'm still not sure whether her most comfortable language would be her native Dutch or her adopted Italian. Her English is not spectacular, but it came off fine here since she was supposed to sound like a non-native English speaker.