Not the REAL Bibi Andersson


I was really annoyed at this film, because it boasts an appearance by a favourite actress of mine, former Ingmar Bergman favourite Bibi Andersson. But, lo and behold, it isn't the REAL Bibi at all, but a Spanish actress named Bibiana Fernandez, who uses the name Bibi Andersen in this film. Confusing, and unnecessarily so. Fernandez/Andersen plays the tough-as-nails blonde lesbian pimp. Even a review of this film in the New York Times (by the estimable A.O. Scott) got the two Bibis mixed up. The Swedish Andersson is almost 20 years older than Fernandez/Andersen. I didn't like this silliness at all. The film, IMO, needed somebody like the REAL Bibi to give it a lift.

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just as a curious fact, this Bibi Andersen is a transexual Spanish actress

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Thanks for this little nugget of information, vargsten.

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