Word: filming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These take the form of ponderous reflections on the contemporary situation of the sexes, on which subject he is distressingly garrulous, and not exactly Wildean in expressing himself. A digression into homosexuality is well-meaning, but somehow patronizing and out of tone with the rest of the film. A bedtime discussion between Moore and Andrews about just what he means by the term "broad" establishes Edwards' credentials as a feminist, but does not contribute much to the gaiety of nations. There are some boozy barroom dissertations that are every bit as entertaining on film as they are in real...
...customary cheery professionalism, but with small chance of large rewards. Most of the good material is left to Moore, who is a gifted farceur and very brave about soldiering through the editorials. He is not a forceful comedian, but he is opportunistic, intelligent and, occasionally, touchingly vulnerable. This film could provide him the chance, finally, to find the large audience he deserves...
With so much about the film that is fall-on-the-floor funny, it is perhaps ungrateful to complain about Edwards' philosophical aspirations. But "10 " had a shot at being a 10 on the comedy scale, and it is a source of regret to place it in the 6-to-7 range...
...long and harrowing, brutal and humiliating, and feminist Director Bellon does not blink at showing us, in excruciating detail, every moment of Nicole's ordeal. Indeed, one comes to admire the fortitude of Actress Nell in playing a scene that must have been almost as terrible to film as an actual rape would be to endure. Yet the sequence has value, revealing through the action of the rapists rather than through abstract discussion the psychology of this sort of criminal, which centers on the need to victimize and abase. It also reveals, as no other film ever...
Unfortunately Bellon vitiates the intensity by allowing the rest of her film to deteriorate into a series of rigid and predictable scenes: the deeply wounded victim refusing at first to bring charges; her boyfriend reacting with outrage but with a lack of true understanding; the community half suspecting that the victim may have done something to provoke the crime; the rapists, when they are finally brought to trial, insisting that they were indeed enticed into their act; the woman, supported only by a friend, forced to relive the most ghastly moments of her life in testimony and in re-enactment...