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...turn-of-the-century New York City. Could it be? Yes, it is! "Marco Santorelli," she cries. "We danced on the boat coming over!" Marco, an Italian immigrant who is working his way up in the trucking business, has just had a coincidental reunion of his own-with Maud Charteris (Faye Dunaway), a rich actress for whom he once worked as a gardener in Italy. And talk about a small world: Marco's friend Jake, a Russian Jew who came over on that same crowded boat, hears the tinkle of a ragtime piano while strolling through Harlem. Darned...
...narrator is a boy in prep school, a classmate of Justine's son's, when he hears that story. Over the next half-century he uncovers the others, until, around 1980, he interviews one of the last survivors, Maud Erskine, who is 93. "I suppose it's appropriate that the Book Class should end in a book," she says...
...woman on the faculty at the time. She was one of the first women to win a lifetime appointment here, thanks in part to a feisty benefactor who endowed a chair on the condition that it be filled by a female scholar. The professor, a medieval historian named Helen Maud Cam,learned as many lessons at Harvard as she taught. In her first years here, she was barred from attending morning services at Memorial Church; only after a struggle did she coax the church into bending its men-only rule...
...Queen, the Cheshire cat and several other figures, Alison Taylor stands out with a resounding, jazz-style voice, as does Belle-Linda Halpern's mezzo-soprano voice throughout her different personifications. Though Halpern and Taylor have the most refined and talented voices, the others--Ben Cobb, Linus Gelber, Maud Winchester and Susan Glassman--belt out their parts clearly and loudly...
...everything else in this sidelong glance of a movie, that point is, at most, implied. He has a long road to travel before he finds the freedom to respond to life as Rohmer does-with a wry sigh. The director of such wittily profound films as My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee and The Marquise of O . . ., Rohmer has long since established himself as one of film's most assured miniaturists. This latest meditation on romantic absurdity is one of his most approachable and overtly comic works. -By Richard Schickel