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...entitled Ultimatum. By the time the novel ends, all is lost; the Governor General of Canada muses sadly, "We fought for our independence as long as possible, but it couldn't last." Even while Canadians were mulling over that fanciful prophecy, its stridently nationalistic author, Toronto Lawyer Richard Rohmer, was producing an equally flamboyant sequel, Exxoneration. This time the U.S. invades Canada but is beaten back by Canadian forces with some help from the Soviet Union...
...collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game, 9:30. May 16: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, 7:30, Contempt, 9:30. $2 per night, $1 per film, series ticket...
...haven't been to Sal's in nearly a year, and I don't talk to women in bars much anymore, especially since a hooker tried to pick Kevin up in the Two O'Clock last fall. But I sometimes dream of a power, like my namesake's in Rohmer's Chloe in the Afternoon, that is consummate attraction. And I wait to answer my door on some dreary Thursday afternoon, and find a youthful Lauren Bacall, propped by a door jamb, asking for a match...
...Nuit Chez Maud. The third and best of Eric Rohmer's moral tales verbalizes much of the Catholic philosophizing that is implicit in La Collectionneuse, Claire's Knee and Chloe in the Afternoon. Jean-Louis Trintagnant's performance is good but overshadowed by Francoise Fabian, the provocative divorced doctor who tempts...
...Rohmer ignores what is potentially most interesting in the film, the source of Frederic's afternoon anxiety, and throws out only tentacles of suggestion. Rohmer plays subtle, adult games on the glossy surface of his story. They are bemused, cultured games, but the winner is a moral fraud, not a moral hero...