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Laterna Magika is a marriage of drama, music and movies, and it develops both the hoopla and the problems of the ménage a trois. Invented by two clever Czechs named Alfred and Emil Radok, Laterna Magika is presented on a split-level stage surrounded and intersected by movie screens: wide screens, narrow screens, square screens, round screens-one, two, five, ten, thirteen screens illuminated by three projectors projecting several pictures at the same time and the whole gazingstock accompanied by a skull-splitting roar of stereophonic sound...
...with her mother, who falls seriously ill on the way and is rushed off to the nearest hospital. Joss (Susannah York) and the three smaller children put up at a pretty pension in the country-actually a small chaāteau done over. Drōle de ménage. The mistress of the establishment, a pretty spinster (Danielle Darrieux) of a certain age, is in love with the star boarder (Kenneth More), a dashing Englishman who instantly appoints himself acting uncle to the children, fighting their battles with the help and taking them for drives...
Adultery is the cleverest of the seven episodes-a cynical little satire on a well-known Gallic institution: the ménage à trois. While dining out one day, a young bachelor (played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, the post-existentialist punk in Breathless, who proves roguishly engaging in romantic comedy) gives a neglected wife (Dany Robin) the old let's-do-it look. She looks right back. Wearing his horns jauntily, the husband invites the bachelor home for lunch. "My wife hates money," he murmurs casually, "so she spends it as fast as she can. By the way, when...
...romance is that, though boy wants to marry, girl thinks they should first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...
...return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness the Italian scene, she reveals the real corespondent of her triangle-Italy...