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...wenches his way through his role as the aging musketeer Porthos. He pronounces the word nipple as "neeple." He is a figure of masculinity not so much past its prime as grotesque and overripened, the kind of colossus Rodin might have come up with if he worked in old Camembert instead of bronze. In short, Depardieu is just the kind of male to frighten an adolescent girl off the gender altogether. In this filmic universe he is the anti...
...crazy waltz, while the singers onstage danced what was ostensibly the pachanga. Or the success of the Bat's corny "He is the goose to be cooked...watch while I baste." Even better was the faux-Gallic banter between Eisenstein and Frank, neither of whom spoke French: "affaire?" ... "Camembert!"; "du jour?" ... "I' amour...
...fails on either count--and especially if he is eliminated in the first round on April 23--the party that swept Francois Mitterrand into the Elysee in 1981 and dominated French politics for the better part of a decade could split apart or collapse like an overripe Camembert...
...next number, Gitano's "Improvise," which feels more licentious and uninhibited, with a Spanish rhythm. This mood music then gives way to a series of clipped scenes, each with its own song: "Ze Sidealk Cafe" is cleverly lyricized, sprinkled with stock French expressions ("au contraire...laissez-faire...Camembert") and sung individually by chorus members in a cute, Epcot Center-World Show-case style...
Even in his most extreme moments of anticlerical shock, Dali remained a Spanish Catholic. He inherited from Spanish devotional art a paralyzing morbidity about flesh. He liked anything that was not erect: running Camembert, soft watches, sagging loaves of flesh held up by crutches. Naturally all this was much more shocking 50 years ago than it is today: Dali was regularly denounced by Fascists and Stalinists alike as a decadent threat to youth. When he could no longer annoy either the bourgeoisie or the self- appointed guardians of the proletariat, he mortally offended the avant- garde by embracing Franco...