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Jeanne Moreau acting her best, director Luis Bunuel at his most malevolently intelligent: who could ask more...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Bunuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
Still, we were interested in gore. Though M just couldn't match the exhilarating poor taste of the murder scenes of Charade, still we could hope. After all, in a 1928 film the Spanish director Bunuel managed an extreme closeup of a razor slicing an eyeball. But in M peeling an orange with a switchblade is the goriest Lorre ever gets...
Disorder boasts an impressive roster of international film stars sloshing through still another odyssey of contemporary moral chaos. In this artiest of art films, the malaise reaches epidemic proportions. To make his points, fledgling Italian Director Franco Brusati borrows freely but not well from Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti and perhaps Bunuel, hopefully compiling a whole movie from the kind of footage the masters might have left...
...belie his youth and comparative inexperience. Unfortunately, Sunday will play for only two more days, and I have only enough space to recommend it highly and urge you to force the Brattle into extending Sunday's run by the onslaught of your numbers. On the same bill is Luis Bunuel's Viridiana, which received a glowing review from Ivy Films...