Word: bourguignon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost. It is formidably well-played-Kruger finely suggests both Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full-length film, makes images as surely as a peacock makes feathers...
Unhappily, like most beginners, Bourguignon tries to do too much at once...
Furthermore, the idyl and the peepshow are grossly incompatible. Director Bourguignon does not seem to understand that what is infantile is not necessarily childlike and certainly not charming...