Viva Maria!

Viva Maria! (1965) starring Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne  Moreau, George Hamilton. In the early 1900s, two women named Maria in a traveling carnival (Bardot and Moreau) "invent" the strip-tease, then get mixed up with a South American revolutionary named Flores (Hamilton). After Flores is killed off (surprisingly soon), the two Marias take over his Revolution and are followed by all the peasants in the country. From that point on the movie is an action-packed romp, with lots of battles, gunfire and dying on both sides. It seems churlish to say it, but this is just a silly movie, made only marginally entertaining by the idea of the two pulchritudinous females leading a revolution. It's kind of a fun film, but it seems to me to have little relevance in the 21st century. It's in French, Spanish and English, with English subtitles. Grade: B