Word: donen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funny, incisive and stylish, the film fea tures Frederic Raphael's script and Stan ley Donen's direction...
Bedazzled--Stanley Donen off his stride, trying to pump comic life into the Faust legend. A movie with sparse laughs and nothing to say. At the ESQUIRE, Mass. Ave. on the Boston side of Harvard Square...
...style is a strange hybrid. The superb interiors owe much to Godard (Une Femme Est Une Femme, Le Mepris, Pierrot le Fou) and succeed in filling the cinemascope screen with inventive precision; on the other hand, the exteriors are derivative of American films (with shots lifted from Stanley Donen's Singing In The Rain and Nicholas Ray's Party Girl) and don't always work. Demy's Ray like tendency to pull into high angle results too often in his simply being stranded up there without a satisfactory shot...
...Stanley Donen has directed the melange with the accomplished color camera he has used so well many times before...
...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...