Word: melodrama
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...likable actor whose bag of monumeital insecurities marks the truly assured comedian. As the vamp, Anne Bancroft is appropriately sly and predatory, and Katharine Ross, as her daughter, possesses one of the freshest new faces in Hollywood. But the screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama. Moreover, Director Nichols, perhaps affected by his stage experience, has given much of the film the closed-in air of a studio set. Like Nichols himself, The Graduate appears to be a victim of the sophomore jinx...
Prosper Merimee novella rather than from the encrustation of operatic melodramatics that have come to form the accepted Carmen style, Barrault restored to brimming life the tale of the gypsy charmer and the innocent soldier she dupes into loving her. "The story," says Barrault, "is tragedy rather than melodrama. It is a human tragedy, surrounded by a society that is so caught up in its own dance of life that it is indifferent to the suffering of others...
...rush to acquire status-bearing objects, his characters trample on love, decency and honor and are left in destitution of spirit. Garden is not so much a black as a tattletale-grey comedy. Based on a British play by the late Giles Cooper, Garden sometimes lapses into melodrama and implausibility, but it is Albee's most satisfying dramatic effort since Virginia Woolf...
...From the Madding Crowd is cinematic melodrama, then Schlesinger makes the most of it. It's a worth-while evening--and do plan an entire evening for it--that's even worth the rather stiff prices, which apparently are being offered in Cinerama...
Months later, at their engagement party, the wild-eyed Troy enters to repossess his wife. Boldwood guns down his rival and is taken to prison, leaving the way for Bathsheba and Oak, who has stood patiently in the wings until the melodrama played itself...