Review of Coquette (1929) by Elliott F — 07 Apr 2011
This is pretty bad. Mary Pickford won Best Actress at the 2nd Academy Awards (honestly, that's the only reason why I watched it) and she's decent, I suppose, but the movie itself is not. Pickford plays Norma Besant, a Southern belle who flirts with literally every man in her life (including her father, her interaction with him is sort of creepy) but whose virtue is compromised when one of her beaus wants to marry her.
A lot of the acting is unintentionally hilarious (her brother, in particular, is obnoxious as can be) and the writing and sound is generally bad. I can forgive Coquette for being an early talkie, but I can't forgive it for being a bad movie by any standards outside of Pickford's lead performance, which still isn't that great.
This review of Coquette (1929) was written by Elliott F on 07 Apr 2011.
Coquette has generally received mixed reviews.
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