Word: fausses
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Mather's only goal came on a picture play by center Craig Bergstrom. Bergstrom and linemates Charlie Olchowski and Phil Fauss might have had the edge on individual talent, but under the breaks they could not hold...
There are some men whose tragedy arises not from what they suffer but what they fail to feel. Little Fauss and Big Halsy are such men-and so are those who made the movie...
...Fauss (Michael Pollard), a goofy mechanical genius, is the otherwise backward son of a suffocatin' maw and a sufferin' paw. Halsy (Robert Redford) is a full-time motorcycle rider, ego-tripper and ladysmith. But the steatopygous girls who follow him are, as he admits, "gland cases" and "hurting whores." Between race-track rack-ups and sexual hang-ups, the film is crowded with subject-but barren of object. It is impossible to hide what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson...
...Sundance Kid. But like a child aping an elder, it mimics the gestures and misses the point. The viewer can sense behind the film the search for a proven prescription. But such scrambles are self-deceptive. The movie business is too old to live on formulas; Little Fauss and Big Halsy evokes the repellent image of an adult pulling on a pacifier...
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