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Based very loosely on Dostoevsky's short novel, The Double, Partner tries to examine the life of a young drama teacher named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) and his alter ego (also named Jacob, also played by Clementi) whom he meets in an outdoor public urinal after he tries to kill himself. After a while, the first Jacob begins to feel that the second Jacob is taking over his life. Jacob I plots the murder of Jacob II, building an odd sort of guillotine in a small room papered over with Vietnam Liberation posters. He changes his mind about the murder...
...Paris. Verbal images of life and death in Partner are almost as ridiculous as in Last Tango. Any suggestions that Marlon Brando alone was responsible for writing his speech about going "through the ass of death, right up into the womb of fear" are dispelled by Partner, where Clementi speaks of life as an "echo resounding between the sperm and the shit of the world...
...classics have been familiar to Wakeman since his childhood days in the London suburb of Perivale. His father Cyril was pianist in Ted Heath's big band, and little Richard at age 4½ was already taking piano lessons. At eight he was good enough to master a Clementi sonatina...
NONE OF THE other pieces even approached the Bach. A Muzio Clementi Symphony in B-flat was simply poor music with exposed transitions and bridges (where they existed), trite sequences, and general harmonic and melodic poverty. Typical was an inane arpeggiated triad figure used as melody in the first movement. At least the bubbly rococo confusion of sound obscured the meagre content of the fast movements; absolutely nothing could save the andante...
...marries and joins the Fascists for the same reason-to conform. His passion for convention is the ill-fitting mask he wears to cover his own moral corruption. While he was a young boy, he was the victim of an attempted seduction by the family chauffeur (Pierre Clementi); Marcello killed the chauffeur accidentally while playing with a pistol. Marcello has passed the rest of his life trying to stifle the image of the incident, but it haunts...