Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, Susan Strasberg, the third star, seems a mere satellite. She is miscast, and downright dull, speaking in a disagreeable adolescent voice that fits Anne Frank perfectly, but adds little brightness to Anouilh. Fortunately, there are some extremely amusing supporting actors. Glenn Anders is ideal as the glorious Lord Hector, and Sig Arno serves his role as a timeless headwaiter with a skillful dash of farce...
What saves the film from being a dull recounting of a jealous relationship between two women is the presence of Agatha's daughter, Sylvia, played by Dany Carrel. She remembers her mother's early devotion to her dead father and resents deeply Agatha's intimacy with Angelo. At the same time, she is just coming into her womanhood and feels a powerful physical attraction for Angelo, thus entering into a triangle of jealously with her mother...
...rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These were rare high points. The show was best described by British Artist Paul Hogarth, who said: "This is pretty dull...
...American, colonies a war was fought that brings distress to Churchill even now. An old hand at portraiture, he can cut down to size those who displease him. Of King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent prose is apt to be high-flown: "The lure of gold and the sting of Cadiz inspired the leaders, and at last they let loose their brave men, who fought with indomitable fury...
...would their elders, bowed by a dead weight of memory and guilt. Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured in the Nazi books about race-only not so boring." drifts through the years giving and going to dull parties. It seems to her that she is endlessly playing in an endless movie. People answer the phone the way actors do in second-rate films; they smoke, quarrel, make love or small talk, sit and stand and posture just as if a director were cueing every scene...