Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more promising young Republicans on the national scene. Tall, handsome and 33 -he will be the U.S.'s youngest Governor-Lawyer Bond has assets that go well beyond a wealthy family and a Deerfield-Princeton-University of Virginia pedigree. He won with energy and charm, crisscrossing the state in a chartered Piper Seneca to speak in a faint Missouri twang to factory hands, bar groups and housewives on an issue that he has been able to mine deeply after two years as state auditor: mismanagement and corruption...
Russell's Gaudier (Scott Anthony) has the ebullience and charm of the original, if not the depth: the sculptor emerges as a stereotype of the rollicking boho, leapfrogging over beds and smashing dealers' windows, spouting off against Establishment art values from the top of an Easter Island head in the Louvre, and performing unlikely - and, in real life, unrecorded - feats of gymnastics like carving a marble torso several feet high in six hours flat to im press a dealer. Sophie Brzeska is played by Dorothy Tutin - an elegantly controlled and touching exercise in tight, fey dottiness...
...political maneuvering and late withdrawal. But the failure of whiz-kid Kerry to grab the golden ring from the merry-go-round can be traced more directly to his own tactics and attitudes. Kerry brought overkill into the Fifth District Congressional campaign. He sought to out-spend, out-charm, and outmaneuver the opposition. He wrapped himself in a new and flashy public relations package--the best money could buy--in an attempt to capitalize on his name and reputation. The voters, reaching into a tradition of local interest and loyalty and verring away from the new and alarming, chose...
...amorality, their scornful detachment and their resulting obsession with manners and surfaces. If the film lacks quite as much force as it might have had, that is because the targets themselves have been pretty well battered by this time. The actors do all they can and work considerable charm; Rey, Seyrig and Audran are especially stylish...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie lacks the intense irony of The Exterminating Angel and Viridiana. The tone is farcical, the humor sharp but somehow never wounding. Bunuel could not ever be benign, but here he seems almost lighthearted. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is his most blithe and accessible work. We enjoy it, but at the same time we miss Bunuel's bite...