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There are a couple of rumors circulating about The Game is Over: Roger Vadim has put one of those old Zola novels on film. Roger Vadim has made a fantastic nudie flick...
Sorry, French wonks and sports fans. The movie concerns a lady who takes one too many lovers, the fatal lover her stepson. That plot may be the plot of La Curee. But Vadim's treatment of the lady is highly un-Zolaesque. He doesn't condemn her as an unfortunate being who, because she slipped off the straight and narrow, can only slither around miserably. His treatment isn't an indictment. It's a celebration...
French Czar. By 1957, show-business people in France had begun, not very precisely, to call Levy "the czar of French cinema." He won the title, typically, on a gamble, bringing together an unknown starlet named Bardot and a neophyte director named Vadim. And God Created Woman cost less than $400,000, but Levy plastered the world with publicity and grossed ten times that much in the U.S. alone. He made a handful of other pictures, including four more with Bardot, but he had neither the money nor the skills of a long-run mogul...
...Game Is Over. Some people (including Roger Vadim) consider Roger Vadim an artist. Some don't. What is certain is that he won fame and fortune by displaying his wives on the screen without any clothes on. He got his start by exhibiting Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, and he now presents his third wife, Jane Fonda, in the latest elucubration of the Vadim for mula: lacking something new to say, give them something nue to look...
...which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curée) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair dryer...