Word: cliches
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Story is seldom Antonioni's first concern, and in Red Desert he seems keener to offer Actress Vitti's jumpy, hyper-tense performance as an almost clinical study of neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. All the soulful clichés of young love shimmer with freshness and style in this splashy, sparkling French musical by Director Jacques Demy...
...rapid decline in the famed politesse française has been speeded by too many cars competing with each other on an inadequate road system. Parking is so nightmarish that it has become a Parisian cliché to say "Shall we walk, or do we have time to take the car?" As fisticuffs and frustrations pile up, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné observed: "What's needed is not a driver's license but a hunting license." The official police publication Liaisons, groping for the psychological roots of the problem, observed that in motorists there...
...pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain countries from the music of the decadent West have failed...
...with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...