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Gary's camera can barely take its eye off Seberg lying naked on a beach at dawn, surrounded by symbolically dead birds and sated, unconscious males; or being caressed by a Lesbian brothel-keeper; or struggling vainly for sexual fulfillment in the bed of a handsome hermit. The scenes are not remotely erotic. This is partly because Seberg is not much of an actress, partly because Gary is not much of a director, and partly because no taint of reality has been permitted to obtrude; whether she is on the beach or in bed, nary a hair...
...this is amply demonstrated in Weekend, Godard's latest diatribe against the bourgeois world. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (TIME, Sept. 27) saw modern society as a big brothel. Weekend sees it as a slaughterhouse. A couple (Mireille Dare and Jean Yanne) are embarking on a motor trip. On a narrow country road, they run into an interminable traffic jam. They inch past a line of strange highway flotsam, including a cage of circus animals and a sailboat on a trailer manned by a mariner in wet-weather gear. A few stalled cars honk furiously...
...sulks, pop takes up with a willowy tour guide, and mom settles down with a handsome French millionaire. Like all TV sitchcoms, How Sweet It Is! culminates in a stock comedy scene. This time it takes place in an Italian bordello, where too many kooks spoil the brothel...
...warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house...
...Nudist Campers evokes the critical judgment rendered by Martin Esslin, author of The Theater of the Absurd, that "the modern theater aspires to the condition of the brothel, but it cannot deliver the goods." At Jim Haynes' Arts Laboratory, every night is an esthetic Mardi Gras, and one obsessive concern of the "artists" is to make expressive art objects of themselves. They are human happenings, and as such may spell the death of art rather than its birth. For them, durability seems like death. Their credo is not "Life is short. Art is long" but "Life is short...