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starring Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Annie Girardot and Lila Kedrova; written by Philippe de Broca and Alexandre Mnouchkine; directed by de Broca...
Years of practice haven't brought Edouard Choiseul (Jean Rochefort), a professional pianist, closer to perfecting the one art that is his true passion -- womanizing. As his ex-wife (Annie Girardot) explains to him, he has slept with his wife's best friends and his best friends' wives and no one trusts him any longer. At first a farcial, light-hearted portrayal of an over extended, frantic womanizer, the film becomes a dramatic, often poignant probing of Edouard's moral and psychological dilemma...
...double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon), but Ted Kotcheff s direction is lifeless. Were it not for the creepy musical score and endless interrogation scenes, it would be difficult to tell that...
...Rochefort brings some freshness even to obligatory scenes like the one in which he must face his officemates decked out in a plum-colored suit, mod haircut and hip new manner. Nodding his head to an imaginary cool beat, he has the odd, rueful grace of a stork with something caught in its throat, and we can almost believe, that a young girl's heart would indeed...
Director Robert (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) juggles sever al subplots that are sometimes amusing but do nothing for the film's cohesiveness. The main one involves Rochefort's three colleagues in adultery - a sort of Gallic answer to John Cassavetes' Hus bands. Their best scene: on a prank, one of them wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant by flailing about disguised as a blind man. Then, after further appalling on lookers by lurching off into the night be hind the wheel of a car, he murmurs to his pals, "It was more...