Word: bujold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dapper fellow portrayed by Belmondo, we learn, has lost a fortune thanks to his inept uncle, who has speculated away his inheritance. Strike one against the inanity of capitalism. Meanwhile the woman Belmondo pines for, acted by a ravishing Genevieve Bujold, has become engaged to a silly looking suitor who promises nothing but a fat checking account. Strike two. So what is a clearly superior gentleman to do about this unappreciative bourgeois system of values? Strike back, of course. The suitor's fortune rests on his family's jewels, so Belmondo lifts them. His career in crime has taken wing...
Belmondo's great backlash at the money-grubbing world has palled. We miss the scheming smiles and gleaming winks he projects so well, and even Bujold is having trouble lighting his Don Juan-ish spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and he finally receives the chance to take revenge on the skinflint. He forges himself into the old man's will while his uncle helplessly looks on, eating his heart out but too sick to call for help. Yet even here Malle's directorial listlessness--intentional, no doubt, but unendingly strange...
...dawn breaks on the caper that began the film, we see the dark rings under Belmondo's eyes and face the ugly mess of burglary for the first time in broad daylight. The whole business is not such a lark after all; Belmondo doesn't feel very sexy. Not Bujold, we now understand, not Belmondo's forged inheritance, not even a socio-economic destiny can satisfy this man's soul. Only his crowbar. The overall conception may strike us as weak, but we can now account for Malle's depressed editing. So if you feel that Malle as director...
...movies and are usually portrayed, as here, by Jack Lemmon -Alex is disgruntled, angst-ridden, desperate and about dead-ended. His life is a crumbling edifice that needs some heavy restoration work. What it gets, instead, is a demolition job in the person of one Maritza (Geneviéve Bujold), an aggressively nubile gypsy. You know the type: wild, tough, unconventional, sexy, mystical, earth-spirited-all those things. She also reads palms, tea leaves and the bottoms of feet...
...island the buccaneers desire to free is shown to be a homosexual with decided S-M leanings. But psychopathology runs against the grain of a free, open form that numbers among its prime attractions the promise of not bothering to delve into such dark and irrelevant mat ters. Genevieve Bujold, as the high-spirited, high-born maiden with whom Rob ert Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with...