Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner

Miss Rossner's novel is very much a New York novel. She's too good to waste on the sort of material the movie provides, which is artificial without in anyway qualifying as a miracle fabric. Miss Keaton, who continues to grow as an actress and film presence, is worth paying attention to in bits and pieces of the movie, whether she's trading arch banter with a potential pickup in a barroom as she studies her copy of “The Godfather,” or teaching a class of deaf children, her occupation by day, or making breathless, abandoned love with a stranger. Goodbar,” which is, I admit, something of a contradiction, unless you're sex‐and‐violence starved. Brooks in the interests of transforming into something glossy what might have been a truly grubby, urban horror story.Īnother major mistake is presenting us with a Theresa Dunn in the per son of the splendidly beautiful, intelligent, funny Diane Keaton, who is virtually the only reason to see “Looking for Mr. This may turn out to be the cinema year's most ingenuous decision, though it's only one of several taken by Mr. Brooks lops off this frame, thus to pretend to discover the sad fate of Theresa Dunn. Though the book, which was based on a real‐life case, was such a best‐seller that I can hardly believe anyone will be going to see the movie without being aware of its plot, Mr. In her book, Miss Rossner frames this story with the murder, a device that has the effect of making the novel itself an exploration of the circumstances that brought its heroine to such an end. by a psychopath who didn't like the color of her pantyhose.

if the girl had been just as arbitrarily murdered on the street at 10 A.M. At least, that's what I think it's about because I doubt very much if Mr. Goodbar,” Richard Brooks's film version of Judith Rossner's novel, is about a lonely woman who hangs around singles bars and one night takes home a stranger who, after sex, stabs her to death because she won't let him sleep till morning.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner