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...like to think the movie's lack of insight is due mainly to the special difficulty of transferring this novel into film. The filmmakers make this difficult to believe. Michael Legrand's score comes on like Muzak's version of the Exodus theme, matching the subtlety of Lehman's own technique. Lehman rivals that other Catskill whizkid, Otto Preminger, and gives us so many establishing shots that he all but draws a map for us. If I little more optimistic about TV situation drama, I'd say that this movie was made...
...earnest Burgess (similar to his shepherd in Far From The Madding Crowd); Edward Fox (James's brother?) puts in a fine cameo as the scarred Trimmingham. The young Dominic Guard is suitably discomfited and ruddy as Leo. All are bathed in photographer Gerry Fisher's impeccable lighting, while Michel Legrand contributes an appropriate formal--and lovely--musical score...
...film is also infused with a Michel Legrand score that is at once appalling and appropriate. Its romantic attempts to tumble into poignancy echo Francis Lai's Love Story theme, but here the music seems to actually reflect the true excesses of its period. In fact, in the film's climactic scene, Hermie places a big band treatment of the film's theme song onto the phonograph, and, in the wonderful moment that follows, the two realities-that of purported, remembered history and blatant movie artificiality-merge. Like a mobius strip, the film turns back on itself and, for just...
...Demoisellss de Rochefort. Jacques Demy's fourth feature is a joyous daylight-drenched musical well served by Michel Legrand's music, Gene Kelly's presence, and les soeurs Dorleac (Francoise, and Catherine Deneuve...
...that this reviewer sat through Demoiselles with a happy idiot grin on his face, intensely pleased to watch beautiful people gaze at one another and sing lines like, "Mais tu es merveilleuse," and "Son profil est celui de ces vierges mythiques qui hantent les musees et les adolescents." Michel Legrand's music (never absent--like Cherbourg, the film is entirely sung) makes much use of half a dozen excellent themes; a ridiculously Rachmanioffy piano concerto and the chanson de Maxence are particularly memorable. Demy's lyrics simple and direct ("Estelle loin d'ici? Est-elle pres...