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...Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean Becker 2 hr. 10 min. to exorcise. The movie stinks, but Adjani makes it sizzle. With One Deadly Summer this French Barbie should find her way into the closets of many more overage little boys...
...financial community Volcker is regarded as something of a demigod because he brought down inflation, strengthened the dollar and set the stage for the euphoric bull market in stocks that began last August. Nearly 80% of 702 executives polled by the investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman got only 5.5%, Treasury Under Secretary Sprinkel 2.5%, and Fed Vice Chairman Martin less than 1%. More than half the executives fear a return to double-digit inflation if Volcker is replaced. So bullish is Wall...
...tourist dollars. The gentry could be generous to films from abroad, including Martin Ritt's U.S. entry Cross Creek, a dewy-eyed swamp drama starring Mary Steenburgen as Novelist Marjorie Rawlings, and Carlos Saura's dance film, Carmen. But for the four French films in competition-Jean Becker's One Deadly Summer, Patrice Chereau's The Wounded Man, Jean-Jacques Beineix's The Moon in the Gutter and even Bresson's L'Argent-the locals saved their special scorn. At the end of each of these films the crowd whistled derisively and stomped...
...cast is impressive nonetheless. Holly Swartz, as Mother Courage, carries off one of the most demanding female roles in the theater with aplomb and grace. Peter Becker, as the chaplain who argues that a war is all right as long as it's a religious war, is very professional and completely winning. Praise must go as well to Michael Allio, Christopher Moore and Deborah Wasser. But without a doubt, the big surprise in this cast is Kattrin, played by the lovely Brigit Fasolino. Her face is just right--a picture of peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie...
...production shortchanges some of the most famous scenes of Mother Courage--"The Song of Capitulation," "Solomon's Song"--but it does have its moments. Peter Becker's "Son of the Hours" is splendid, as are some of the comic interludes. And Mother Courage makes far better use of that enormous Mainstage space than did Agamemnon and some of the other undergraduate disasters of years past...