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...here The Sacrifice strips gears and revs into a kind of controlled delirium. It embraces elements of old-dark-house melodramas (a creaking door, a dead phone) and French farce (Alexander sneaking down a ladder for a late- night tryst). Yes, the end of any world, even this desiccated one, can be both spooky and funny. And so is Alexander's unshakable belief, stoked by Otto, that the fate of the planet depends on his "lying with" the ethereal Maria. Is she Eve or Lilith, Mary or Mary Magdalene? Or just a maid who understands that even a dotty master...
...provided upscale young couples with an excuse to drive fast and twirl rapturously on the beach. Now Lelouch has reunited his stars for A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later. Aimee, whose features have calcified chicly, is a movie producer desperate to make a musical version of their tryst. Trintignant, who looks weary and has every reason to be, gets lost in the desert and is rescued by Bedouins. One young actress, Evelyne Bouix, looks the fitting image of Aimee; another, Marie-Sophie Pochat, weeps becomingly. Everything else is a stupid botch. For those who loved...
...puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase a Daffy Duck videocassette...
...berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle to teach him? "I'm a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani," Uncle shrugs as he evicts a poet from his squat. "And there's no such thing as race in the new enterprise...
...series. But Mike wants his public to know that his success didn't come overnight. We are talking about a veteran of commercials for Doublemint gum, French's mustard and Toyota. Now if you'll excuse us." Mike, we hear you are trying to get away for a quiet tryst with your collie girlfriend. Any comment? "Really we must go. Mike has never attacked a reporter before...