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Bolero

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Bolero (1984)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 1

Rotten:11

Average Rating: 1.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: After graduating from her English boarding school, Ayre embarks on a globetrotting quest to shed her unwanted virginity. She emerges from her first attempt with a drowsy Arabian sheik as pure as... After graduating from her English boarding school, Ayre embarks on a globetrotting quest to shed her unwanted virginity. She emerges from her first attempt with a drowsy Arabian sheik as pure as the driven snow and sets her sights instead on a Spanish bullfighter named Angel. The bullfighter proves to be more of a night person, and Ayre happily joins the ranks of womanhood. But her bliss is cruelly cut short when Angel suffers an injury in the ring. Will they ever find love again? [More]

Starring: Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Ana Obregon, Andrea Occhipinti

Starring: Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Ana Obregon, Andrea Occhipinti

Director: John Derek

Director: John Derek

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Jul 26, 2005

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Bolero must rank as one of the worst major movies ever made. Many awful movies are at least funny in a campy sort of way. Bo and John Derek, however, make films so sincerely bad that they offer nothing in the way of relief.

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09/22/06
Susan Granger
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Erotic, surely, only for the very easily pleased.

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06/24/06
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Even showing lots of Bo Derek's beautiful nude body isn't enough to save Bolero from terminal boredom.

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02/20/06
Chuck O'Leary
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Cinema this toxic can either kill you with laughter or simply turn your brain into a pool of sex-obsessed pudding.

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09/19/05
Scott Weinberg
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02/07/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The real future of Bolero is in home cassette rentals, where your fast forward and instant replay controls will supply the editing job the movie so desperately needs.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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The director is no Vadim and the star is no Bardot.

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07/04/04
Jake Euker
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04/03/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Bolero salutes creativity as the universal language of hope, renewal and community.

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02/04/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

For some reason, the movie's sex scenes, which are relatively few, have been directed as slapstick.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
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