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...film, however, Bertolucci's visual style sparkles sufficiently to overshadow the shallowness of the film as a whole. A few shots of books stacked in mounds in Jacob I's room are satisfying in terms of the parallel they make with the Roman ruins outside. The landlord Petrushka (Sergio Tofano) who wants to be treated like a servant, is a fascinating minor character. These are the sort of minor elements with which Bertolucci built his better films, but in Partner they come to no avail...
SUNDAY: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 1966. Not the story of America's last three presidential administrations. Clint Eastwood stars in the third of Italian director Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western series. Scenic and bloody, this film tops the previous two for extravagance, including an entire Civil War battle as a backdrop. CH.5. 7:30 p.m. Color...
...energy, with its suggestions of abrupt but casual violence, al ways threatening but quickly absorbed. The very next scene balances and complements it: a long interlude of fare wells at the Havana airport, families breaking up, hurrying to leave the country for Miami. Here is the first introduction of Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), who remains in Cuba by choice while his wife and parents fly to America. His farewell is unique among the oth rs all around him for its detachment. Watching his wife and parents leave, Sergio is not seeing his life out but watching it begin...
...Sergio considers his country very like himself: stunted, uncertain, still suffering from the physical and psychological effects of "underdevelopment." He lives off the income he still receives on apartments the government took away from him, and tries to be a writer, sifting through the shards of his own and Cuba's past. He has lazy, erotic daydreams about his cleaning lady (Eslinda Nunez); he takes up with a girl called Elena (Daisy Granados), then loses interest in her. Her family drags him to court, where he watches the proceedings while considering that before the revolution he would have been...
Light as a Feather (Chick Corea, pianist, Polydor; $5.98). Imagine Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 playing variations on Miles Davis and you get some idea of the results produced here by Jazz Pianist Chick Corea and his group Return to Forever. This is an ingenious blend of Latin, pop and jazz, both traditional and avantgarde...