It's remarkable how, with her Nefertiti looks (especially with her hair up), she still managed to appear genuinely - and very touchingly - vulnerable in this film.
It requires no stretch of the imagination to understand why a man could be so obsessed by her.
Or does it?
(I am asking, because I am not a man. :))
So let's see... Nefertiti: Egyptian. Omar Sharif: Egyptian. NOW I see why Omar was so taken by Anouk.
But you are absolutely correct; Anouk's exquisite femininity in addition to her vulnerability would present a combination few men could resist.
A film called MODEL SHOP, from around the same time period, also featured Anouk as a kind of prostitute (albeit of the nonsexual variety), where the leading man (2001's Gary Lockwood) chanced upon seeing for the first time in public, only to become obsessed by her.
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So let's see... Nefertiti: Egyptian. Omar Sharif: Egyptian. NOW I see why Omar was so taken by Anouk.
I just saw this on TCM. It was dubbed in English, and I almost turned it off for that reason, but I wanted to see Anouk Aimee and Omar Sharif. They kept me watching even though I feel the film would have benefited from being cut by about half. Of course, I wanted to find out if Carla was a prostitute, but it was really just that I liked to LOOK at the two actors, even though their acting was nothing to write home about.
P.S. I am a straight woman.