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...Mario (Marcello Mastroianni), a Milanese manufacturer who is initially seen standing before one of his machines. In case anyone should miss the point, the machine is shown in furiously moving pictures; Mario is encased in a still photograph. When a salesman presents Mario with a balloon, he inflates it and suddenly becomes obsessed with the mystery of what he has done. "If I stop and there's still room inside," he muses, "then I've failed." Ignoring his friends, his mistress (Catherine Spaak) and ultimately himself, Mario gets absorbed in the nonproblem of how much...
Attempting to give his film some metaphorical importance, Director-Scenarist Marco Ferreri heavy-handedly presents the balloons as sexual, global and H-bomb symbols. To little avail. By the time Mario decides that his problem is insoluble and defenestrates himself in despair, the viewer will have long since discovered that he has been trapped inside a movie very like a balloon: filled with nothing but air and stretched to ultimate thinness...
During a recent reading in the Manhattan studio of Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, their poems competed with the sound of a speeding locomotive, hissing helium, the splat of a punctured balloon, random clickety-clacks and the unprogrammed clucks of three caged chickens who presumably work for Rauschenberg. And during a performance of Michael Benedikt's poems from his collection The Body, there was the sound of oscillating necks as the audience tried to keep up with the nudie films that were projected on opposing walls. But to savor Benedikt's laconic wit, the peace and quiet...
...business suffered because of the war. James W. Brine Company, local sporting goods store, advertised "Army supplies required by ROTC, Navy supplies required by the Radio School." The Collegiate Balloon School, Inc. of Rockville, Conn., searched Harvard for balloon pilots for the Army Signal Corps. Instead of Evelyn Wood's speed-reading program, undergraduates turned to General Wood's "Military Science Instruction Charts" to improve their grades...
...Shrinker. The story beats with the low but constant pulse of loss and dislocation-qualities that are found in greater measure in The Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different...