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Such moments occur frequently in this racy, juvenile, artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...
...important bureaucrat took these ideas a logical step farther, demanding an interest charge on capital and prices rooted in economic reality rather than planning fiction. Academician Vadim Trapeznikov, revered in Russia as the "father of Soviet automation," threw his weight in with the reformers all along the line, noting that "one hears the view that interest on capital is a concept of capitalistic society." Wrong, he insisted. "In fact, the form here is identical, but the essence is different...
Nutty, Naughty-Château is a house divided between Director Roger Vadim and Novelist Françoise Sagan. On the framework of Sagan's first play, Château in Sweden, which enjoyed a long run in Paris, Vadim and an associate script carpenter have slapped together a film comedy that deserves to be condemned, and probably will be. It is synthetic, flimsy and obvious. Yet through the cracks in the walls one can still glimpse the work of a wry, precocious playwright who knows how to make decadence amusing...
Clearly, Château cannot stand on its plot alone. But Vadim goes farther to bring it to sure ruin by translating high comedy into languid boudoir farce. Time and again he sacrifices wit, worldliness and style to make room for a blonde (Vitti) in a bed sheet-the Vadim trademark-then repeats the obligatory routine with a brunette (Hardy). What he conveys, at last, is a boyish conviction that these bored, civilized votaries of pleasure might be just the sort for a fun weekend, but no longer. Sagan's sidelong glance at the enigma of women, in Vadim...
...came, was seen by and promptly conquered French cinematographiles last August, and they styled her la B. B. américaine. Now, after a brief period of adjustment, Vassar-bred Jane Fonda, 26, is taking a walk on the wild side with the original Bardolator, Director Roger Vadim, 36. The man who discovered Brigitte's charms bundled Hank's lanky daughter into his favorite costume, a bed sheet, tousled her hair and led her intently through the scenario of his movie version of La Ronde. And, even though the picture is finished, from St. Tropez comes the word...