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...performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until...
...classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges' neat twists are retained too: the husband is still that paradigm of dignity in need of mussing, a symphony orchestra conductor; and while leading the orchestra, he still fantasizes a perfect but totally impractical plot to murder his bride...
...Moore) looks like an unhappy man. "In Italy," his wife Daniella (Nastassja Kinski) purrs, "we show our emotions." "In New York," Claude replies, "we just sulk." But ultimately Claude's sulking gives way to delusions of honor regained. Weeks before. Claude was the happiest man around: a successful orchestra conductor and top celebrity, infatuated with his dazzlingly beautiful young wife. "I love her," he says at the beginning of the movie, adding, "but I am going to kill her." What went wrong is the premise for the plot of his latest movie. Unfaithfully Yours...
...Arthur can sparkle even when his character doesn't guzzle champagne. Instead of playing the caricatured drunk (Arthur) or the caricatured sex conquistador (10), with Claude, Moore gives his most balanced characterization yet. Moore, an Oxford graduate degree holder in music and an accompolished jazz artist, plays the conductor comfortably and convincingly...
Divided into two parts, the film first focuses on the eccentricity of the characters who have come to pay tribute to the fallen star. Vain opera celebrities upstage one another while rehearsing for Tatua's memorial concert, a foppish conductor reveals his obsession with the dead soprano while an English lord is cuckolded by a member of the ship's crew. The film moves without direction, as scene after scene of extravagant dinners and meaningless tete-a-tetes follow one another and avoids any serious character or plot development. Instead it concentrates upon painting a picture of the rich...