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...Tropez assume an irrational importance because Why, like a child, has an experience limited to that home. The content and mode of her experience dictate. like the phenomenology of voyeurism in L'Oeil du Malin and the phenomenology of emotion in La Femme Infidele. the actions of the protagonist...
...expansion of the novel's meaning, Wurlitzer resembles Thomas Pynchon, who also wrote a book in which the reader adopts the protagonist's emotion instead of merely sympathizing with it. In The Crying of Lot 49, the plot contains a possible conspiracy that you see as a possible conspiracy existing in your life in exactly the same sense as it exists in the novel. The intellectualized emotions contained within the book are generalized outside of it in a way that does not usually happen...
...perverse characters and grotesque objects of Chabrol's earlier films take a part in La Femme Infidele. The taller of the two anarchic clowns, whom he has repeatedly employed, turns up unshaven in a bar and insults the protagonist as he passes through. The shorter one appears as a truck driver who rams the rear of the hero's car at a crucial moment. But like the extravagant colors and camera motions that La Femme Infidele inherits from the earlier films, these characters have become precisely integrated and thereby far deeper in emotional effect. The boorishness of the second clown...
...meetings tend to bog down in debates on procedure, elections, factional conflicts), but Antonioni cannot be blamed for telescoping exposition to raise some basic questions; it's the sort of things movies do best. But the need to provide an atmosphere distasteful to Mark (Mark Frechette), the film's protagonist, prompts Antonioni to make the meeting noisy and confused. Soon after, Mark makes a conspicuous exit, and the students react with excessive irritation. "If he didn't come to join us, he shouldn't have come at all," one boy exclaims; by this time the credibility of the scene...
...Herostrattis has a story, but no plot, at least if we conceive of plot as progress. In the Greek legend ??? burnt down the temple of Artemis at Ephesens to gain ever-lasting fame. In Levy's retelling Max, the protagonist, sick of the "crap-heap" and the guardians of the nation's institutions who have us "hopping around like jumping beans," decides to kill himself, and takes his intention to an ad agency. He offers the head of the agency. one Farson, the chance to handle his suicide in any way he sees...