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...fascinated by obsession, by the kind of craziness carried so far beyond the reasonable delusions of ordinary men that it acquires a kind of grandeur. In The Duellists a young hussar lieutenant named D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), an unexceptional man, collides with another lieutenant named Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Feraud is a strutting, bloody-minded fool, and he challenges D'Hubert to a duel. Though D'Hubert knows that the matter is silly, honor forces him to fight. Feraud is wounded, though not severely, and the affair seems to be well ended...
...just gone crazy in the City of the One Night Stands, it's gone kaput, period. The most unsettling facet of this death-of-love motif is the pervasiveness of its reality among the film's otherwise diverse characters. The malaise afflicts the professionally fulfilled executive (Harvey Keitel) as deeply as his hopelessly unfulfilled housewife (Geraldine Chaplin), who fancies herself a modernday Camille, running around spouting melodrama and sipping Carroll's Southern Comfort between lines. It fails to discriminate between John Considine's hail-fellow-well-met furniture dealer and Carradine's petulant artiste. With one noteworthy exception, each...
...movie that delivers so much in so many varied areas, Welcome somewhat disappoints with its acting. No single performance truly dominates the story, nor is Welcome studded with especially accomplished supporting performances. Keitel has added yet another polished evocation of a character to an ever-lengthening string of impressive roles (Taxi Driver, Mean Streets). However, his character, the go-getting executive Ken Hood, is simply not central enough to the narrative to eclipse the other less inspired performances. Sissy Spacek's considerable talents are wasted in the peripheral role of a live-in housekeeper who keeps Carradine's apartment tidied...
...seen his son in three years. Carroll puts up in a rented house supplied by a real estate woman (Sally Kellerman), who also sends along a young maid (Sissy Spacek) with a disposition for topless housecleaning. The maid has a thing going with a man named Hood (Harvey Keitel), who works for the elder Barber. Hood's wife Karen (Geraldine Chaplin), given to coughing fits in imitation of Camille, starts a thwarted affair with Carroll. All of these intimacies are recorded by a photographer named Nona (Lauren Hutton), who excels at taking pictures of corners. "Makes sense...
...aging frontiersman is surrounded by an entourage of relatives, managers, flacks (Harvey Keitel, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) who are devoted about equally to managing his affairs profitably and to seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films, the minor characters are hilariously venal, conning themselves relentlessly, the better to con the public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear...