Directed by Berry Gordy
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Paramount)
Engrossing drama revolving around Diana Ross and her ambitions as a fashion designer in the slums of Chicago. She falls in love with politician Billy Dee Williams, whose liberal views frequently puts them at odds. Anthony Perkins almost steals the movie as the fashion photographer who discovers her and offers a job in Europe. The turning point of the film occurs at a jump cut, an image of a dingy and gray Chicago street under the elevated train tracks cuts to a sunlit Rome. Here Ross gradually succumbs to the excesses of the Roman fashion scene. She further degrades herself by living off a rich Italian designer, who eventually demands she sleep with him. Meanwhile Perkins has become obsessed with her to the point of taking on traits of Norman Bates. I liked the first half, but the second half too frequently resorts to melodramatics.
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