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...what this slowly paced film lacks in top-flight mystery is made up for by its compelling authenticity; in fact, director Daniel Vigne recreates 16th-century village life in painstaking detail. The film spills over with highly convincing silhouettes of village routines--shaking the chaff from the grain in woven baskets, donning animal costumes for a religious festival, and the ubiquitous grape-stomping. Remarkably enough, the village men and women boast wrinkles, bulges and (best of all) noses--Artifat's denizens look as though they were yanked off a Bruegel canvas, not a studio backlot. Enhanced by excellent costuming...
...melodramatic course. It brings on the machine's creator, now turned so cynical that he believes mankind ought to get on with its ultimate death-wish drama. Overplayed by an eye-rolling John Wood, this burned-out genius rips the delicate fabric of believability that the picture has woven, turns Coleman's character into an onlooker, and makes David's climactic confrontation with WOPR more silly than suspenseful...
...world in the grand manner, but once inside, the proportions were oddly foreshortened, like a stage set. Over the basic, by now slightly worn furnishings, done in hotel-suite neutrals, lay a mulch of giftware's...A great many of these items were monogrammed, embroidered, stitched and woven by the loving hands of women whose fingers the doctor had nonetheless managed to slip through...
When the actual liberation ensues, reality and the quiet course of life gain the upper hand again. Things wind down to a slower pace, but for a brief period, the characters' lives have been woven into a mythic tapestry alternating somber patterns, with flashes of wild color. The patterns fade through time, but the colors grow ever brighter and more vivid in this marvellous cinematic folktale...
...mother's house-boy suddenly becomes a major suspect, and the details of his sordid past are suddenly added to the plot. The heavy burden placed on the audience's perspicuity to supply transitions and link them to Jaffe's theme make the film seem choppy and loosely woven...