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...Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lie both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti has not found a cinematic technique for translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the despairing hero...
...ANIMATION: Marcello, I'm So Bored by John Milius, 23, of U.S.C., begins with an epitaph from the late Erroll Flynn: "I believe I'm a very colorful character in a rather drab age." It then flashes through a quick-cutting kaleidoscope of mindless pleasure seekers-motorcyclists, teenyboppers, discothèque dancers-accompanied by a sound track of sighs and despairing screams. One judge saw in the eight-minute film a viable cinematic equivalent...
...Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...
...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) has been fanatically faithful to Albert Camus' fine novel of alienation and despair, even to the point of including a long soliloquy on life, death and the meaninglessness of it all by the hero (Marcello Mastroianni), which mars an otherwise powerful film...
...camera first catches the clerk Meursault (Marcello Mastroianni) on a bus ride to the old people's home where his mother has died. Meticulously, it builds up the minutiae of the life of this moderately attractive, affably uncommitted man-working, making love to his girl friend (Anna Karina), watching the street life of Algiers...