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...simply caught, not structured. Bertolucci is too busy using facile Freudianisms to account for Paul's aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for Father's boots). He does throw in a welcome parody of Godard and his films, all hollow Hollywood-loving childishness, abetted by the eternally adolescent actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. But even its welcome is soon worn out. And the last tango itself is pathetic: painted Fellini faces contort, and toothpick bodies sway on a dance floor as Paul tries to impress Jeanne...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH. "One Week" by Buster Keaton, "Bondu Saved from Drowning" by Jean Renoir, March 1, 7:30, $1, Far From Vietnam, edited by Chris Marker from footage given to him by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Renais, Agnes Varda, Joris Iven, and other, March 4, 7:30, free-sponsored by Institute of Politics. "The Boat" by Buster Keaton (1921), "Toni," by Jean Renoir (1935), March...
...Savior. Jean-Luc Godard considers the film the beginning of his deep political involvement in issues of production and class struggle. Whatever concrete ideas he may hold, however, are lost in the groping opacity of the experimental style that controls the film...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "The Girl and Her Trust" and "A, Temporary Truce" by D.W. Griffith and "Western History" by Stan Brakhage, "Nostalgia" by Hollis Frampton and "Running Shadow" by Robert Fulton. Feb. 8, 7:30, $1. Vladimir and Rosa by the Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) Feb. 11, 7:30, free (sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
Like such otherwise di verse works as Godard's Contempt and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, The Spider's Stratagem concerns the workings of myth, the complicity of fancy and legend in history. The screenplay is an extrapolation from a short fiction by Jorge Borges, Theme of the Traitor and Hero, in which a historical researcher, investigating the death of his great-grandfather, a political martyr, discovers that the man actually traduced his confederates...