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...does have, however, a very pretty lady (Jacqueline Bisset) who can be observed scantily, or at least wetly and therefore clingingly, clad on every possible occasion. There is also some pretty underwater photography and some pretty fair suspense as good guys and bad guys thrash around on the ocean bottom looking for long-lost treasure of the Spanish Main, which is all mixed up with some more recently misplaced valuables -morphine that the wicked ones want to turn into heroin...
...problems, or, perhaps more accurately, some puzzling aspects for what is intended as summer-weight entertainment. The most curious of these is a certain unconscious-or is it semiconscious?-racism. The crowd pursuing the almost-heroin is composed entirely of black men, and their interest in sexually tormenting Ms. Bisset is at least as powerful as their greed for the drug. She is cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon she is being forced to strip...
...action in Technicolor on a wide screen in my head, and I hear the characters speak every line of dialogue before I write it. All my heroes look like Clint Eastwood -I've had this absurd crush on him for years." Her heroines she imagines as Jacqueline Bisset or Olivia Newton-John. "I just write what comes to me. Sometimes I turn a passage in to Avon without rereading it. I'm just now learning to rewrite competently. But I could never do things to please critics or an intellectual coterie. I write to please ordinary people...
...star cast to flourish any more than does the plot. Mastoianni is locked into a dull role as a middle class detective unsure of how to treat the high society Torinisti he is investigation, in particular how to deal with his growing non-professional interest in Jacqueline Bisset. Bisset does not seem half so bored as her constant companion. Trintignant. (who frequently looks as if he might scream if forced to make one more stereotypical gay gesture), but only because she does not appear sharp enough to figure out that neither the picture nor her character are going anywhere while...
...Sunday Woman is a double-barreled puzzle, about which one does not know whodunit and one does not care either. The movie, steadfastly hare brained, has an unreasonably attractive cast: Jacqueline Bisset, elegant and wry as a bored member of Turin high society; Jean-Louis Trintignant, absorbed and enigmatic all the way through the part of a bisexual aristocrat. Mastroianni continues to be as relaxed as a sleep walker, as unruffled as a cat on the prowl. His shrugs are funnier than the dialogue he is given, and he employs them defensively, to good effect...