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...BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
...Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...both Billy Liar (an exploration of the caricatural fantasy life of its young hero) and this plush Boston Art Haus are variations upon the charming cliches of the capitalist imagination...
Scriptwriters Waterhouse and Hall, and director John Schlesinger have more than redeemed themselves after their previous collaboration, A Kind of Loving. Despite good reviews, that was a dreadful film--pretentious, hackneyed, maudlin, static--everything that Billy Liar is not. Here they move easily between fantasy and reality, in flowing, witty sequences...
...outrageous cliches that protrude glaringly from the actual flow of plot. As a result, the fantasy sequences might well suggest a delightful spoof of the "81/2"--Marienbad treatment, where the inventions of the protagonist's teeming consciousness must be painstakingly divorced from what is really happening. Happily, Billy Liar makes no such intellectual demands on its audience...