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Dark-eyed sex kitten Valerie Kaprisky plays the teenage vamp out for the blood of musclebound gigelo-pimp Romain (played by French hearthrob Bernard Giraudeau). The premise, not a plot but a torturously enacted idea for one, is a humourous example of self-conscious Freudiana: at the beginning of the film, Chris saves an eight-year-old boy from the deadly clutches of a field of jellyfish--read vagina--and in the end pushes superstud Giraudeau into the deadly metaphor...
...that takes some of the controversy out of this much discussed work. It is so securely played and sung, and so delicately balanced that the music emerges rich and even moving. Stravinsky is also represented by another fine performance, his 1914 opera Le Rossignol with Janine Micheau, and Jean Giraudeau, and forces of Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens (Angel). The opening act, written before Stravinsky had emerged from the influence of Debussy, is ecstatic; Soprano Micheau's singing is always that...
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