Word: melodramatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moral Struggles. This scheme is as wild as any ever manufactured by a Victorian theatrical melodramatist and if Chabrol's plot reminds us of antique theatrical forms, so do his characters. They seem to exist mainly to demonstrate how - caught up in our own pre occupations and bemused by the ambiguities and polite deceptions of modern behavior - we miss the moral struggles going on around...