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...these lousy kids come in from outside and spoil the market," said Avery, an expensively groomed seller and an avid reader of science fiction. "The new cats burn (cheat) everybody," added his girlfriend, Stinger, in the suitable Hippese...
...last scene display a highly sophisticated use of narrative exposition. On a content level, the truths of The Champagne Murders derive from scrupulous honesty--a retrospective look at the film resulting not so much in our remembering hints dropped conspicuously in early scenes as places where Chabrol didn't cheat. When Jacqueline the secretary types up the letter of transfor turning Paul's name over to Christine, she is shown in screen-left fore-ground in focus, with Paul and Christine out of focus in the background. Our eyes watch Paul and Christine because we think that they are more...
...third act when he and Hamlin finally stand face to face, no amount of individual stagecraft can forestall the recognition that they are acting in different plays. Hamlin, for better or whose, is playing a text about an individual's realization that progress is an illusion and a cheat. Shuman is playing an elaborate directorial conceit concerning the corporate bankruptcy of American life. Where the juxtaposition of these characters might create tension, it begets doubt, and where it might suggest final insight, it conjures up only a conceptual mis-match...
...reactionary's substitute for Bonnie and Clyde as candidate for American nouvelle vague honors of 1967. The comedy elicits some laughs and the steady pacing prevents boredom, but when the last shot has meandered off the screen. The Graduate lives on in the mind as a dramatic cheat and a vivid example of Hollywood besieged by the creeping uglies...
Peaceful & Fair. "They told me that we would have to cheat because the other side was cheating," Mrs. Tokarski said out of court. "They had me believing that Hatcher was a Communist. But what I was doing began to bother me. I just couldn't live with...