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Malle has attempted two things with this movie, and succeeded in at least one. In Pretty Baby, his last movie, he buried a potentially lurid story about teenage prostitution under a mountain of period detail, creating a fuzzily romantic picture-book of old New Orleans. Atlantic City is an equally...
As an inquest into the soul of an American city, Malle's film offers a catalogue of detailed horrors--I'm surprised the city's Board of Tourism didn't find some way to block its distribution. A pair of young people, Robert Joy as Joe and Hollis McLaren as...
Malle animates his vision of a contemporary Gomorrah with an intelligent deployment of detail and hovering shots of inanimate scenes. Some of his ironic directorial comments are almost absurdist: After mob punks kill Joe for stealing their coke, his estranged wife Sally (Susan Sarandon) is left to dispose of the...
MALLE MAKES SUCH SCENES seem plausible in his Atlantic City, and as a slice of fallen life this is a successful film. But as a presentation of a handful of characters and their lives Atlantic City fails. Malle seems to have trouble casting male Americans: Keith Carradine's deadwood performance...
Lancaster just about torpedoes the human side of Atlantic City, leaving it a film that says a lot about a place and very little about people. It's still worth seeing--if you want to rid yourself once and for all of any desire to visit the Las Vegas of...