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...spare. As usual, Simone Signoret leaves a tingle in the air, though she is done in when the plot is only half unraveled. Preternaturally sensitive to the supreme folly of being human, Simone (Mme. Montand in private life) plays a third-rate actress who mocks herself as "an overripe hag out for a good time" with a young student (Jean-Louis Trin-tignant). She feels guilty about nothing until she has to confess that even a woman of distinction must sometimes travel in a crowded second-class compartment to save money. As another hunted passenger, Catherine Allegret (Signoret...
...dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...
...further convinced that the adult who feels under compulsion to lick formidable mountains invariably enjoys as unsatisfactory a love life as a lady harp player." The obverse of that notion is that sex itself is the real, perhaps the last great adventure, the "last frontier" that permits modern man, hag-ridden by civilization, to explore, to dare and to conquer...
Phyllis McGinley: You dried-up old hag. What would you know about woman's natural instincts? You never even had a baby...
...little tin Jesus." She spends her life cursing him, beating her babies, kissing them better, robbing their piggy banks, fighting off loan sharks, sneaking off to see a stupid lover and viciously cheating at solitaire. She ages disastrously. Halfway through the book she is "a black-eyed, feverishly rouged hag with blazing yellow skin" and a mind that is slowly coming apart...