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HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. Heat. 2:15, 6, 9:30, Murmur of the Heart...
...Murmur of the Heart. Louis Malle's ripe, witty sketchy of indiscreet bourgeois charm in 50's France is far more deeply thought out than other period pieces on adolescence. Lea Massari plays the complex voluptuary of a mother. As other French directors stagnate and repeat themselves, Mallee may yet emerge as the most original and least gimmicky of the bunch. Be wary: the film plays alongside Heat, the latest by Paul Morrissey (Flesh, Trash). His second stand as surrogate Andy Warhol is full of grotesque actors and grotesque sex which boil down not to the grotesque...
...displacement in the tangible world. His trancelike absorption in Go is, in human terms, chilling. Out of place in the Western-style lounge of a resort hotel where he is competing, he gazes indifferently at the panorama of golf courses outside; of the strolling honeymooners he can only murmur tonelessly: "They must be bored." What throws his game off more than anything else is a glaringly unaesthetic move by the challenger ("like smearing ink over the picture we had painted...
...tired, the home team's lead is threatened, and help is needed. The gate in Yankee Stadium's right-centerfield fence swings open and a Datsun painted in pinstripes taxis a relief pitcher toward the diamond. Eyes strain to see who is inside the car, voices murmur, hopes rise. The car stops, the stadium organist sweeps into the regal strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and the crowd exults. Out steps Albert Walter ("Sparky") Lyle. He sheds his warmup jacket with measured nonchalance and strides toward the pitcher's mound, one cheek distended by chewing tobacco...
...Murmur of the Heart, Louis Malle's sensitive study of incest. Central II, 6, 9:55. With Accident, 8:05, weekend...