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...Hamlet is a microcosm of the production itself, as his desire to avenge his father's death is tamed by the play's genteel environment. Delivering lines with playful refinement, Scott's performance works best when he banters with Polonius (David Cromwell) or soundly rejects the love of Ophelia (Natacha Roi). But his passionate soliloquies fall flat, failing to tear the polite veneer from his countenance. His only way of communicating unbridled passion is with a hollow scream, which sounds insincere and empty...
...party she meets Natacha (Florence Darrell), who invites her to spend the weekend at her house, so her father lgor (Hugues Quester) can meet Jeanne. Natacha's father is involved with Eve (Eloise Bennett), a girl his daughter's age whom Natacha despises. Rohmer trails this quartet of actors for a week and the audience observes them eating, and fighting, telling stories, discussing philosophy, and gradually getting involved in each other's lives...
...slightest semblance of plot, and the actors do nothing but speak in front of a basically immobile camera, a tech nique Rohmer learned from working in television. However, in spite of this, Rohmer succeeds in drawing the audience in, little by little, just as Jeanne is drawn into Natacha's family problems. The director presents four charismatic and eloquent characters, and by the middle of the film the audience feels as if it were watching an episode from real life...
...shoulders. Teyssedre deliver, the best performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable creation and provides the film with its radiant core. Beautiful and petulant, Darrell gives a splendid performance as Natacha, a confused and complex eighteen year-old wavering between adolescence and adulthood...
David H. Chin '86, Robert M. Neer '86 and Natacha I. Barber '86 were notified last week that the Fulbright program will cover all of their expenses for a year of study abroad...