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Although none of the visual ideas are new, some, like painting characters onto old movie footage, are still striking. Others are ostentatious. Michael, the Bakshi surrogate, is drawn with a cheap storybook realism while everyone else is grotesque. The hero looks like Snow White among the Seven Dwarfs, the kind of narcissism the movie not only indulges, but stresses. ∎ Jay Cocks...
Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...
Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...
Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...
...Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America of 1991, when a mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like...