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...University's anti-union attitude and the breakdown of the grievance process claimed another victim when Paul Trudel, a Central Copy Services worker, was fired in February, allegedly for unionizing activity. The whitewash which followed the Trudel firing was near-complete, and totally successful--Trudel, unemployed for several months and awaiting a ruling on his case, decided to drop his charges against the University. Still, many questions remain unanswered, and the University has, needless to say, not been forthcoming with the answers...
...played (more or less) by toothy, leggy Sylvia Kristel, and her husband, played by Umberto Orissini, have agreed they are free to do whatever they wish, so long as they don't fall in love with anyone else. Where the dynamic tension in Emmanuelle I was provided by the breakdown of Emmanuelle's inhibitions, the only tension in this film comes from outsiders who aren't quite sure how they feel about the whole scheme. But everyone gives in eventually, and the plot ends up with all the complexity of a 'See Spot Run' book--only this time...
...wild allegation" but admitted that he had known Scott more than a decade ago. Thorpe said he met Scott, then 19, when he was training horses for a landowner acquaintance of Thorpe's. A year later, Thorpe and his family befriended the boy after he suffered a nervous breakdown. Yet Scott stuck by his story, later insisting that he thought he was "going to live with Thorpe and be cared...
...seeming model of sanity and success should suddenly break. But Bergman has demonstrated more effective ways of revealing this. The viewer feels so insulted and manipulated by the overexplicit technique of this dream-sequence that he is almost too preoccupied to concentrate on the unfolding story of Jenny's breakdown...
These external events are of course only catalysts in her breakdown. Her loneliness, guilt, her ancient resentments against her parents for dying and her grandmother for inadvertent cruelty, are all revealed later in the film. In Face to Face, the psychological case is uniformly convincing while the work of art is not. There are still a few perfect, self-contained moments in this film, however, particularly a night-time conversation Jenny overhears between her grandparents...