Word: aristocratic
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...conscious mannerisms, he makes his character, a mess sergeant from Arizona, an appealing innocent abroad. Devane is a charming commanding officer, despite his disconcerting tendency to sound like Jack Nicholson. Both Eichhorn (a gifted screen newcomer) and Redgrave show enough backbone to prevent their roles, a shopgirl and an aristocrat, from softening into hopeless cliches...
...days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly fatale (Pamela Burrell), an adventure for which he is gelded. The second is a horse race in which he wins his master's bet for him. His master is Prince Serpuhofsky (Gordon Gould), an engaging aristocrat of excess whose religion is hedonism and whose reigning vices are gambling and drink...
Bach: Six Sonatas for Clavier and Violin (Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Harpsichordist Helmut Walcha, Philips; 2 LPs). Several virtuosos have recorded these crystallizations of the baroque sonata style (Oistrakh, Menuhin, Laredo), but none can beat the suave brilliance of this set. Szeryng plays with an impassioned aristocrat's clarity, grace and brio. Walcha, a virtuoso in his own right, is appropriately brought to the fore by Philips' bright tonal presence...
Claudio is meant to be a dullard aristocrat, insensitive and unpoetic--his highest flights of imagination produce feeble lines like Redford's sulky performance is sufficiently imperceptive but occasionally mannered, Shohet's graceful but hard to judge, since she has so few lines...
...French society, whether aristocracy bourgeoisies, peasantry or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible. But in Rules of the Game Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife, the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir himself)--the movie ultimately demonstrates all their limitations. Renoir blows the form of romantic comedy apart, constructing a work of great subtlety and complexity, which in the starkness of its vision conveys the difficulties of finding viable...