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STEVEN K. PETTERSON Playa del Rey, Calif...
...years later, this new film, his 29th, uses a device reminiscent of The Exterminating Angel. A small group of frivolous, well-heeled Parisians (Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur) sit down to a series of meals that are in some way either interrupted or totally disrupted. The movie is a skein of the guests' separate fantasies, each one originating with the recurring comic nightmare of a disastrous dinner. Bunuel, as if working an artful parlor trick, sometimes pulls one dream from inside another like a series of splendid silks...
...Rey, familiar not only from Bunuel's Viridiana and Tristana but also as the crafty dope smuggler in The French Connection, plays the ambassador of a country called Miranda; his exquisitely developed sense of hypocrisy binds him close to his Parisian friends and even closer to Miss Seyrig, a friend's wife with whom he is indulging a perfunctory passion. With his companions Cassel and Frankeur, he is also earning a tidy stipend on the side by smuggling cocaine in his inviolate diplomatic briefcase. Their only concern, besides the ambassadors incessant fear of revolutionaries, is "a gang...
...amorality, their scornful detachment and their resulting obsession with manners and surfaces. If the film lacks quite as much force as it might have had, that is because the targets themselves have been pretty well battered by this time. The actors do all they can and work considerable charm; Rey, Seyrig and Audran are especially stylish...
...native of Barletta on the heel of Italy's boot. Or perhaps stocky Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa of the Malagasy Republic. Borzov remains unbeaten, but at the trials for the U.S. team last month, two qualifiers exploded past his best time. Slim, goateed Eddie Hart and Reynaud ("Sugar Rey") Robinson both equaled the world record...