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Wedding in Blood, a fine Chabrol film about crimes of passion with brilliant performances from Michel Piccoli and Stephane Audran, is moving to Central Sq. along with Bergman's The Touch. Lucia is staying at the Welles, but not for too much longer, so catch it while...
...PURELY technical level, Chabrol has achieved a near-perfect control over his medium. Frame by frame he has created a photographically beautiful movie. The beauty is not of the slick sort that many commercial directors so easily mass-produce nowadays, but instead it evolves from the way Chabrol's cameras treat the spatial relationships between persons and things. It's as if the director turned the literary search for the mot juste into cinemagraphic terms and then succeeded in his quest. The excellence of technique is hardly for its own sake; like the most mature directors Chabrol has subtly integrated...
...each of the major personages in the story. Without exception the performances are first-rate, and the actors--most notably the two stars and girl who plays Audran's daughter--infuse their roles with such life that they almost bound off the screen and take on three full dimensions. Chabrol was extradinorily lucky to have access to these quality performances, because when the story begins to sag--as it does in too many places--the actors manage to carry things along until the narrative begins to pick up again...
...personal interactions. For instance, it is never really clear what stuff the passion of the Audran-Piccoli affair is made of. How much romantic love there is, how much of the relationship is just an attempt to give life to a thrwarted sexuality, is just never defined satisfactorily. Perhaps Chabrol did not think such definitions important. Perhaps all we have to know is that the lovers shared a common bond of wanting to escape from their desperate situations...
...fomenting revolutionary struggle or fighting imperialism--which you should be if you know what's good for you--you might as well see some of them before the weekend rush. The most exciting movie event in the area is tomorrow's N.E. premier of Chabrol's Wedding in Blood at the Harvard Sq. Theater. Geoff Garin's review, wildly complementary, appears on page two. Wedding is playing with The Touch, Bergman's first English-language film and his worst movie. Another great double feetch at the Brattle: A lovely movie version of Lawrence's Women in Love coupled with...