Word: raucher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summer of '42, Raucher...
...Summer of '42, Raucher...
...girl (Jennifer O'Neill), a war bride living in a lonely cottage on a promontory where sea, earth and air come together, who becomes the focus of Hermic's discoveries, is presented with the necessary elusiveness of a dream (partly as a result of Mulligan's treatment of Herman Raucher's often underwritten and coy screenplay). But, because of the realistic, often comic development of the rest of the film, her character calls forth audience frustration rather than the desired sense of intrigue. Introduced in two slow motion sequences, she is surrounded by a lyricism that is forced and contrived...
...Summer of '42, Raucher...
...seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...