Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Upon completing Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, a tearful Liza Minnelli declared publicly that she would never, ever work with tyrannical director Otto Preminger again. Worse luck for her: Junie Moon contains what may well be Minnelli's best non-musical performance. Based on the novel by ...more

Always one to push the borders, Otto Preminger's production of Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon deals with the problems of three outcasts from society and features a rather disturbing opening in which Liza Minnelli's face is brutally disfigured. Released at a time when cinema was exploring new subjects and new ways of presenting people onscreen, it seems unfortunately dated. Although Preminger takes pains to make his trio of misfits human and realistic, there's an air of melodrama that hangs ...more