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Loosely shaped like a musical sans songs, and almost sans plot, the film plunges headlong into the life and loves of Angela (Anna Karina), a Parisian stripteaser who shares her room at the top with a bicycle racer (Jean-Claude Brialy). Their relationship has obviously been built on the flimsiest...
From time to time Carnovsky adds grunts and expletives that are not in the text, but they are always in keeping with the part. And as he exits before intermission and enters after it, he keeps repeating, "A king, a king!" This occurs but once in the text, but its...
As a satirist, Lillian Hellman can still be cuttingly observant despite the familiarity of her targets, but she lacks the moral suasion of satire that comes from being half in love with what one loathes, cherishing the sinner while hating the sin. Her transparent disgust with her characters and all...
When IRS Head Mortimer Caplin announced last December that all expense account expenditures over $25 must be supported by "documentary evidence." restaurateurs responded with a flurry of gimmickry. Some offered Polaroid photos of diners at work, others provided tape recorders to prove people were talking business. Many listed prix fixe...
The discovery that his daughter has been seduced diverts him for a while from his idee fixe, and he rants and mourns like a character out of Dumas fils. There is some talk about his ordering the errant one out of his house, and then a while later he observes...