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Director Kleiser (responsible for Blue Lagoon and Grease among other monumental celluloid accomplishments) has chosen a fascinating backdrop for a film. In addition, the Dionysean ambience of the place, if sensitively explored, would be an interesting subject for folks who think that the Cape of the Hamptons are the cat's pajamas. Summer Lovers, however, is nothing more than a sloppily arranged series of brief glimpses of an island paradise, seen through a camera constantly swooping for 180-degree panoramas and zooming from close-ups of sweat-filled navels to post card spots of the entire rocky coast...
With elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night set to Mendelssohn and against a backdrop of nature photography, this lush film marks a partial return to Allen's earlier style. Working again in comedy, the veteran filmmaker has abandoned the subtlety of his more recent creations, but if the majority of the humor is broad, it is also notably less bitter than in his earlier movies. The impotent, unattractive hero and his bevy of shallow beauties are gone...
...addition to producing, directing and arranging. Yazbeck plays electric piano and takes charge of an on-stage band perched precariously above the other performers on a scaffolding backdrop. Like the set, the music is spare and appropriate, never overpowering the swirl of denim, bandanas and flesh down in front...
...intricate political maneuvering went on against a backdrop of desolation and fear. The residents of West Beirut were constantly reminded that the Israe lis were at their gates, that the time for a settlement was running out. Thousands fled to the safety of East Beirut and the countryside. Refugees from the south had already crowded into schools and arcades and commandeered apartments. In this tense setting, one automobile driver created a panic simply by leaving his old red Mercedes double-parked for a few minutes in front of a building packed with refugees. The danger: the car might contain...
...fever. In the capital, blue-and-white national flags adorned everything from office buildings to shop windows to taxicab antennas. Cafés, shops and hotel lobbies buzzed with excited talk of the latest news. Television shows were repeatedly interrupted by grave-sounding announcers reading war bulletins before the backdrop of the national emblem. Crowds gathered outside newsstands to peruse the latest reports. On the Plaza de la República, women sat in the sun knitting wool socks, caps and scarves for the troops on the islands...