Word: amours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AMOUR...
...should look like an old silent movie runoff on a modern projector. The characters must move and gesticulate as if controlled by a crazed puppet master and appear always to be running into each other, often at the least advisable moment. The production of 13 Rue de l'Amour at Manhattan's Circle in the Square comes creditably close to the Feydeau tempo and spirit, but it is difficult to orchestrate an arena stage to that crescendo of forbidden doors being opened and closed on which Feydeau depends...
...Feydeau plot is both intricate and indecently funny. The people are bourgeois and very much married; yet adultery is their chief goal and interest in life. In l'Amour, Moricet (Louis Jourdan), a doctor, lusts after Leontine (Patricia Elliott), wife of Duchotel (Bernard Fox). On frequent "hunting trips" Duchotel is cheating on Leontine with the wife of a friend...
Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...
...Surfacing under a miasma of grays and blues, the CB becomes a sinister force in the town. Rain also showers the darkness, but it dirties as much as it cleanses, recalling Alain Resnais's evocation of the contaminated rain after a nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, Mon Amour. During the day, when the CB appropriates a docile mask, bright sunshine dominates the cinematographer's vision. The soundtrack, too, depicts both sides of the community. Basically low-keyed, the music alternates between clean but mournful acoustic guitar melodies and upbeat truck-driving ditties, echoing Demme's preoccupation with CB's comic...