A film about the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt starring the great British actress Glenda Jackson. This had the potential to be an easy biopic, but in Jackson's hands The Incredible Sarah is something else altogether. This is especially true in the extended sequences where Bernhardt–Jackson plays Phèdre and Joan of Arc. Jackson-as-Bernhardt is so good, even in these little sequences, that one began to understand how audiences really could be over the moon about an actress. The costumes in this film also are gorgeous and imaginative and really original. And there are two amazingly campy sequences in which Bernhardt destroys everything in the room, throwing mirrors to the floor and shattering vases and tearing curtains. It's a delight.
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