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Directed by SIDNEY LUMET Screenplay by PAUL DEHN...
Directed by CLAUDE CHABROL Screenplay by CLAUDE CHABROL and JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE...
...movie churns the viscera more than it should, forcing its jittery nerves into contact with whatever we're most on end about ourselves. A look at the published screenplay makes it harder to see why this should be. The book's dialogue is filled with petty details that never add up to reasons to act, terrors are pointed out in the stage directions, but except when Johan first leaves Marianne the passions are too strong for what's happening. The screenplay seems just good enough to make small, slippery claims on the audience's emotion; of course, it does much...
...cuts himself, dropping most of the minor characters--even the pair's children--and cutting references to them in other places. The film, as cut, is all of one piece, but it leaves out so much that it isn't the same work. It seems, from the published screenplay, that the film he released is like a violent sketch for a larger, more detailed painting that would lose sensation because it covered too much. Enough is left out of the U.S. version that, confronted with convincing passions on the screen, the viewer is forced to fill out the details from...
Directed by KEN HUGHES Screenplay by BARRY LEVINSON and JONATHAN LYNN