Word: fabr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life would be only a series of such sorry revelations for Nicholas without the support of his friend Fabré (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a creator of unsuccessful fictions. Like most failed novelists, Fabré is bitter. He sits in a cafė all day, his crippled foot hidden under the table, nursing along a grenadine and milk ("with a drop of cassis") and trying to live vicariously through Nicholas. Indeed, he transforms Nicholas into the protagonist of a novel that is lived, not written. He tells him what to do, where to go, how to talk, whom to pursue, when...
Nicholas is the definitive antihero; he is also the definitive cliché. No wonder Fabre's life is a rubble of rejection slips. Unfortunately, the people who made Love at the Top have not demonstrated the same critical wisdom as Fabré's prospective publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain...