Word: fabians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing day work in movies, character bits in commercials and specialty acts at small clubs. It is a hard scuffle, but Nicholas dotes on the comfortable insecurity of the life. At least it offers a neat opportunity to fend off deeper involvement with his mistress Peggy (Françoise Fabian) and keeps an eventual reconciliation with his wife (Carla Gravina) at a safe distance. Nicholas' only deep commitment is to the dubious luxury of noninvolvement...
Bemused Talents. Besides the quite ravishing Miss Fabian, the movie can boast the presence of Marcello Mastroianni as Nicholas. He is not seen in major movies as widely as he used to be, so Salut I'Artiste is, if nothing else, a wholly welcome reminder of just how extraordinary an actor he can be. It would seem folly to cast Mastroianni as a nonentity were it not for his wonderfully bemused talents for self-effacement. Many of his best performances (8½, say, or The Organizer) have challenged and contradicted the popular notion of him as a kind...
Shaw said that Mrs. Warren was written for women "to draw attention to the truth that prostitution is caused, not by female depravity and male licentiousness," but by economic injustice. Though a passionate Fabian Socialist, Shaw was prudish. Hence Vivie Warren, Mrs. W's feminist daughter raised in innocence about her mother's livelihood, can still speak to contemporary women about financial independence and job prejudice. But she has nothing to say about female sexual needs...
Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability...
Laing, the idea is grindingly obvious - except, of course, to Director Mauro Bolognini. The notion treats neither Fascism nor insanity quite seriously enough and so makes them somehow less threatening. The actors, adrift, are proficient, especially Françoise Fabian, who is beautiful and intelligent as usu al. She could not have been committed to this movie voluntarily...