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...OVERCOAT. In this virtually flawless Russian film based on Gogol's classic story, Roland Bykov is superb as the nondescript clerk for whom a new overcoat becomes a matter of life and death...
...Three characters on a suspension bridge, suffering garrulously from every known brand of self-pity. Theater of the absurd? Certainly, but the flawless comic acting talents of Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach make it hilarious...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...
...Three characters on a suspension bridge, suffering garrulously from every known brand of contemporary self-pity. Theater of the absurd? Yes, but the flawless comic acting talents of Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach keep the absurd hilarious...
...timing is contained in Walter Matthau's slow burns and Art Carney's fretful fidgets, with Matthau inching out acting honors in one scene of nervous collapse that is rather like seeing the Empire State Building crumpling in slow motion. The rest of the cast is merely flawless...