Camille Turns On
May, 1969
Camille Turns OnHistorians have long claimed that each age rewrites history to suit its own needs; Camille 2000--a fleshy, futuristic updating of Alexandre Dumas' much-revived melodrama--is the application of that assertion to the screen. In former incarnations, Marguerite Gautier, called Camille because of her penchant for camellias, was a Parisian courtesan whose headlong rush toward death was interrupted only by a brief but all-consuming love affair. Camille 2000 shifts the action to Rome, hy...