Word: rubensian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the increasingly Rubensian Elizabeth Taylor is a good choice to play the aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...
HEREIN is the most grotesque sort of debauchery, growing only gradually out of an urbane but decadent sensuality. Gourmet sophisticates become maniacal gluttons; a plump school teacher becomes a ravenous Rubensian voluptuary. The characters are, for the most part, reluctant even to talk about the secret of their gathering--that they have come as suicides. Gradually, their festival of grand cuisine dissolves in a death-charged, sex-charged bacchanal...
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