Word: alaine
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...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Charlotte Faltermayer, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Sidney Urquhart
Stripping the Guerre story of its suspense, composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil establish from the start that the new, improved Martin is a fraud--and a godsend to the virgin wife Bertrande. That's fine; we want to know why she connives in the deception. But the plot is hoked up with religious pieties (Huguenots are the new Bosnians) and a psycho villain desperate to take any Martin's place in Bertrande's bed. It's Romeo and Juliet without the poetry, or an Oklahoma! that...
...somehow seem American if given American-sounding names like "Tom," "Marg," and "Freddy." Disconcerting is Clemote's use of the Italian setting, on which noon-strength sun gnaws, leeching color from sails, crumbling villas and driving everyone pretty much mad. Most disconcerting, certainly, are the mesmerizing eyes of Alain Delon, who, as the poor but desperate Tom, is able to manipulate men, women, and, of course, the audience, with his cocainepure blue gaze...
...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Soozhana Choi, Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn and Alain L. Sanders
...Kathleen Adams, Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffrey C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Mark Thompson