Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The picture is witty (particularly in its cinematic references to Hitchcock's Psycho ), suspenseful, and edited to absolute perfection. It is cleaner filmmaking than Les Biches, and, for that reason, is probably less interesting. (Nor is the relationship of the characters as intriguing as that of the earlier film).
Stephanie Audran and Michel Bouquet contribute grand Chabrolesque performances, and, as usual, there is a murder which radically changes the characters' perceptions of themselves and each other.
IF. . . Lindsay Anderson directed this flamboyant, and sometimes sloppy, film about all the fantasies-political, sexual and mystical-that keep us going in a civilization built on dehumanizing concepts of order. As an example of this civilization, the film presents the milieu of a British public school. For us, it...
The film is at its best in evoking the school's atmosphere and the exuberance of the heroes' visions of revolution. If. . . is also very funny and pathetically sad on occasion. The random sloppiness involves the ambiguity of some of the images (notably, a sudden fetus) and the lack of...
If. . . is also one of the few British disillusionment-with-old-England films in recent years that is not heart-on-sleeve-a syndrome that applies to 1969's lamentable Oh, What a Lovely War. And in the film's ability to get us to cheer and revel in its...