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...HOUSE. Director Rene Clement (Purple Noon) mixes chills with chuckles in an absurd but enjoyable thriller about a Gallic gigolo (Alain Delon) who eludes assassins on the Riviera, only to fall into the clutches of a coltish femme fatale (Jane Fonda...
Obviously the Groomkirby household is no ordinary one. This whole sappy movie may, in fact, be too extraordinary for its own good. Based on N. F. Simpson's London play and billed as England's jackknife dive into the Cinema of the Absurd, Pendulum shuns nearly every requisite for success. It shows little film sense, for its revue-style humor is more verbal than visual. It is often sophomoric, just as often wickedly funny, and has no plot whatever. To U.S. audiences its best-known players are Veteran Actress Mona Washbourne, as a pixilated aunt, and Writer-Actor...
...living-one completes the other. What an actor needs is a sense of involvement, an unconscious familiarity with his role, nothing more than that. There's no point in pursuing the character's real-life experience. It's absurd to think you can truly enter it for a tame little week, anyhow. I never study my role at all before the camera starts turning and then pffft! -it begins...
...voted 97 to 2 against Budo and adjourned, hoping that the payments dispute might be settled during the spring and summer by a special committee to be appointed by Quaison-Sackey. The Assembly seemed clearly pleased at having averted a crisis, but in fact it had only demonstrated the absurd and sadly precarious condition of the U.N. today...
...well whose passions surge at the drop of a bank note, Delon is a rake smoothly handled by Temptress Albright and coltish Actress Fonda, who comes through as a sort of cheerleader turned femme fatale. Together, they make Joy House as sportive as a carnival crazy house, brimful of absurd surprises...