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...make women and scenery look breathtaking. Yet he relies so heavily on static concepts of photography that the effects wears off rather quickly. His characters seem posed and reposed for visual effect, instead of directed for dramatic effect, so that the action bogs down after the first half hour. Aimless directing, a weak plot, liteless characterization and a preposterous script do nothing to keep things moving. The effect is something like watching an animated issue of Vogue magazine...
...KIND OF movie Jaeckin envisioned demands convincing acting and a kind of consistency of intent missing here. If the actors seem aimless and uncertain of what and how much to express, perhaps it's because Jaeckin himself can't decide whether to be serious or satiric. There's a scene in which a man furiously takes a woman on a table. Next to her is a magazine lying open to a cosmetics ad which screams in bold face, "HELP IS ON THE WAY." We can only wonder what the hell Jaeckin is talking about...
These treacherous defects are all on parade in Seascape. It is not a hateful play; it is bland and innocuous, a two-hour sleeping pill of aimless chatter. In Act I, Nancy (Deborah Kerr) and Charlie (Barry Nelson) discuss their lives, which seem to be a compendium of all the middle-aged plaints one has heard about in recent drama and fiction or, quite possibly, from the next-door neighbor. In Act II, the couple is joined by two English-speaking lizards complete with crocodile tails. The lizards, Leslie (Frank Langella) and Sarah (Maureen Anderson), have been almost ostentatiously monogamous...
...convince you the talent is not equally distributed. There are 20 guys Harvard really wants to play--you know, the ones whose names are on the starting roster in mid-August. And there are 80 guys, clawing, groping vainly for some coach to nod their way. They show that aimless hustle--the hustle of an athlete who's wearing the yellow, green or most likely shredded red jersey, emblematic of those fifth or sixth strings to which they must cling...
...Honduras' impoverished campesinos took much interest in radio reports on the progress of Hurricane Fifi as it churned on a seemingly aimless course off the Central American coast. Only two weeks before, a far more powerful hurricane, dubbed Carmen by meteorologists, had brushed past without inflicting major damage; Fifi sounded as frivolous as its name...