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...shape of the decanter," Harrison purrs, eying the built-in bar accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some sprightly table talk about the anchovy sauce served on British trains. Next day, while Harrison's horse wins the Gold Cup, Harrison's wife loses herself to Purdom in the Rolls. Milord and milady ride...
...Lovers' scenario might have been the banal tale of any tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both mystic and realistic, to try to film both the passion and the poetry of love. The resulting sequence is by now duly celebrated in the annals of film. It follows the lovers from bedroom to bath tub and back to bed again, missing very little, zeroing in on Moreau...
Serious problems accompany this tryst, however, as the still maiden Candy is disturbed to find that giving is not really a great sacrifice: "when the gardener's hand closed on her pelvis and into the damp, she stiffened slightly: she was quite prepared to undergo pain for him...but pleasure--she was not sure how that could be a part of the general picture." Even more disturbing, Daddy barges into the room just as the "gardener would have entered her...with a terrible thrust to the hilt, so to speak...
...matter. Designer Ita Maximowna's sets are airy and unpretentious-a close match with Massenet's dulcet music and the story of his heroine's capricious pursuit of an early death. In Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French libretto, but Conductor...
...peering at them curiously. Terrified, they duck their heads, scramble for the keys, bump heads, accidentally hit the horn-which sticks. Two minutes later, the whole drive-in audience is straining angrily to get a glare at them as they hastily back out. So it goes, at tryst after assignation after rendezvous, until finally in sheer exhaustion both parties decide that fidelity is the best policy...