Word: exhusband
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soundtrack, the hero's Volvo roars down the highway, the camera treating it as if it were Ferrari's greatest master-piece; the lovers on a tiny piece of grimy beach are flanked by stagehands running around with large strips of colored paper; the bossa nova singing exhusband becomes a pudgy Hawaiian who falls down a flight of stairs to his death. All this is fine but somewhere from the background comes a gnawing feeling that the conception owes too much to Lelouch--that Bartlett didn't really have much...
Less sparkling but still excellent is Philip Kerr, who uses his considerable talent to give the character of John Karslake, Cynthia's still hopeful exhusband, some color and depth. Paul Bristow is properly cold and mildly repulsive as Philip Phillimore, a judge who feels marriage should be contracted on rational, not emotional grounds, without any reference to love or similar nonsense...
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