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...hour in a park, where an attendant tries to charge him for a bench he is not sitting on. When he spots an interesting female, his approach is promising, probably because it has been well rehearsed. "You're looking," he tells a statuesque model of a girl (Jane Birkin), "for someone who doesn't exist." She responds, not seeming to mind as his inspiration falters and he becomes flustered. She is used to worse, Nicholas shortly and angrily discovers, because she is a whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And So to Bed | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

What a circus! And all to help actors in trouble. For the Union des Artistes in Paris, Actress Elsa Martinelli, wearing black opera hose, ran a couple of baby chimps through their paces. Dressed up as a bunny, Singer Jane Birkin popped out of a cake and walked a tightrope. The hit of the evening was a pie-throwing skit written by Director Claude Chabrol and starring Actor Marcello Mastroianni. Marcello then scrubbed himself down and returned for the 3 a.m. finale when the whole company dished up a giant vat of steaming spaghetti for the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Animated Sisters. In the shadow of the Great War, four Midlanders hurtle toward a collective destiny. School Inspector Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) not only takes the author's part but is costumed and bearded to resemble him. His friend, Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed), is a mineowner who represents the century's death wish: mechanization. Their lovers are the animated Brangwen sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudrun (Glenda Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quartet of Soloists | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Neither the book nor the film has a conventional plot. The players move from segment to segment, progressing in Ursula and Birkin's case to partial salvation, in Gudrun and Gerald's to personal destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quartet of Soloists | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...little less," or "It is better to die than to live mechanically" creak like unrepaired antiques. The book's celebrated nude wrestling scene was supposed to dramatize Lawrence's wish for a return to the presexual child-state. In the film's formal, choreographic version, Birkin makes a postfight declaration to Gerald: "We are mentally and spiritually close. Therefore we should be physically close too-it's more complete." The line may be pure Lawrence, but it now "seem little more than another cinematic plea for homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quartet of Soloists | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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