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Director Zetterling's style reveals her as a cinemagpie. Her symbols are bad Bergman, her decor is awful Ophuls, her decadence is phony Fellini. When in doubt, she bares somebody's breasts; when inspired, she mounts an orgy. Her episodes redound with explicit detail, and frame by frame they are morbidly fascinating to look at. Unfortunately, the frames add up to nothing more than an album of porny photographs, and they do these things better in France. Or even in Tijuana...
...Washington and he promised her last spring, "I'm going to give a party for you because you gave one for me." The place would just have to be the Plaza Hotel, "because it has the only truly beautiful ballroom left in New York." And the decor would be straight out of Cecil Beaton's Ascot scene in My Fair Lady; everyone must come in black and white...
Robbe-Grillet. "It is-quite simply." In his novels, Robbe-Grillet aims at a "certain ceremonious solidity, often slow-moving, with a theatrical sense which sometimes fixes the attitudes of characters in a rigidity of gestures, words and decor, recalling a statue or an opera." Finally, he tries to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory...
Attending the bull session were ten boys and half as many girls, most handpicked from the Freshman Register. Apparently the photographer thought the group looked too bland, because he scouted the decor of other rooms in the entry until he found a wall-size collage of nudes. It served as a back-drop, covering the staid maps which usually adorn Kelman's walls...