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...Michelle Petri '75 received all A's at Harvard except for one B plus, graduating summa cum laude and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. So it came as no surprise to her that she was admitted to Harvard Medical School's class of 1980, along with the Yale and Johns Hopkins Medical Schools...
What did surprise and anger Petri is that she was rejected at other less prestigious med schools for what she says is discrimination, not because of age or race, but because of an operation she had two years...
Lulu has a blustery intensity that finds its source largely in the superb performance of Gian Maria Volonte. He plays the conscientious and eventually disconcerted Lulu with just the right mixture of dumb charm and derangement. It is Petri's thesis that the industrial state can be located somewhere between depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela...
...grand-prizewinner at Cannes in 1972. There is no good reason why it has taken so long to come Stateside-the diminishing market for foreign films probably has something to do with it-and even less cause for the U.S. distributor's cutting 28 minutes from the original. Petri obviously intended the film to have a slightly frenetic quality and edited it accordingly, as if to duplicate the nerve-shredding tension of a day in the factory. The additional cutting makes the rhythm of the film even more ragged than it should...
...Elio Petri is a film maker of deft, sar donic talents (We Still Kill the Old Way, Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspi cion, both starring Volonte). Lulu suggests no solutions. Petri takes great joy in the freedom of unrestricted attack and ignores the drudgery of coming up with answers. In fact, he could be counted on to mock anyone who dared...