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...French government advanced the moviemakers substantial quantities of war material, cordoned off large areas of Paris while the cameras were rolling, and sponsored the U.S. premiere. The producers for their part contributed a big budget and a vast cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Tony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles...
Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade as inoffensively as a hummingbird buzzing the phlox...
...Cassel impishly initiates a seduction while posing nude for a life class in Rome. He has his way with a working model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle...
...trouble is, Male Companion's script might well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
...Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...