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Equally clumsy is the film's direction, the work of Christian Marquand. Every sequence is overlong and overdone. The editing is helter-skelter, with some scenes totally incomprehensible. The color is shoddy and dank; the musical score is too loud and irrelevant. Worst of all, it is highly questionable that Marquand even bothered to direct any of his cast...
...which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter of course. The distracted hus band does not even bother to look around while...
...projects, Kander and Ebb's biggest difficulty this time is their occasional loss for a solid song idea.) Perhaps if they find the right approach for a Zorba number in the first act, the burden on the book would be eased--thereby permitting some necessary cutting in this now-overlong...
...offer little more than a disordered compilation of rough notes"); his unconscious is his only guide. Hence, even before Worthington gets to recall key cameos of himself-as a boy who once foolishly stole, as a young man who was once seduced by an older woman-there are overlong, superficial ruminations and cop-out digressions on the mechanics and nature of memory itself. Finally, in due meandering course, Worthington remembers a first wife who two-timed him and a second wife who two-timed life by committing suicide. But mostly he prefers to muse about aristocratic ancestors or recall some...
...horde of wealthy patrons who normally flock to the chic pre-opening parties in the palazzos along the Grand Canal. Instead, the opening of the 34th Venice Biennale had become a social and artistic shambles. This dubious achievement was yet another milestone in this spring's overlong marathon of student rebellion...