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Lola Montes. Famous for its tracking shots, this extravagantly baroque film by Max Ophuls (Marcel's father), was one of the most colossal financial failures in the history of the cinema, but its 1969 re-release led to much critical approval. The film stare Martine Carols and Peter Ustinov and hurtles madly through Lola's scandals and romances with Lizst, the King of Bavaria, etc., through exciting circus scenes, even through a loose version of the 1848 revolutions...
...breakfast is palatable. Then they beam and demand to know the name of the product, which they repeat nine times. The wives then proceed to their day, which consists of eight hours of unmitigated jealousy and fear. The jealousy is exhibited at wash time. During this period they stare enviously at their neighbor's laundry, which is always whiter-and the colored things brighter-than their own. With wide eyes, they then proceed to learn a series of mysterious monosyllables, among them Biz, Fab, Cheer, Dash, All and Bold. They do not exhibit fear until nightfall, or on weekend...
...impressions: black earth, purple desert, the bleached bird droppings of 4,000 years running down obelisks and colossi, the deliriously blue sky. The official object of their expedition left him quite cold: he uttered a cry of conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam...
...sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle at her sturdy legs, gasping exclamations of gosh and wow! She pays no attention. Older men whistle and stare, tickled by her constant effort, her stamina, and amazed that she seems to be enjoying what to all of them is an annoyance to be escaped as soon as possible...
...seven have less than a full sentence: The deal is worse than it first appears. There is a brighter side to all of this. Each page of pictures is one less printed page to read. And though Dino Kalupolis's pictures are bad, there is no need to stare at them for any length of time...