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...Road's peculiar combination of chichi, opportunistic avant-gardism and calculating commercialism makes it far more offensive than the crassest products from either Hollywood studios or the underground. The screenplay is the work of Terry Southern (again), who also acted as a coproducer, Scenarist Dennis McGuire and Director Aram Avakian. The three have taken John Earth's trim, controlled novel about a nervous breakdown in the groves of academe and reduced it to a madman's drool...
...Lynn Redgrave and Alan Bates, it is not too much to ask author Mankiewiez to give us two characters strong enough to compensate for the performers' lack of intrinsic charismatic personality. Bates and Redgrave are the kind of beings who could have made Georgy Girl work regardless of the screenplay. Watling and Castle are mere actors, who-even if they are not great characters in their own right-could clearly come up with an equivalent of the film's personalities if given characters...
JORGE SEMPRUN wrote the screenplay, based upon the novel. Z by the Greek-born French writer Vasily Vasilikos, Semprun wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais La Guerre est Finie, which also stars Yves Montand, who plays Lambrakis in Z. In both films. Semprun makes use of flashback technique. In Z, it shows Lambrakis the man. Throughout the film, Semprun maintains both the man and the mythical martyr through Irene Pappas, who plays his wife and widow. One of Lambrakis aides comes to her after the officials responsible for his death have been indicted and says...
...could light his cigars with bills of that size-and may be tempted to put his screen debut to the same use. At first glance, he can hardly be blamed. The movie's garish color and lighting would give an aspirin a headache, and its flubbed, dubbed screenplay is sheer, towering Babel. Yet here and there are some amusing hints of the ludicrous student who became the Graduate...
...screenplay, by Jorge Semprum and Costa-Garvas, is taut and suspenseful. Raoul Coutard's photography cannot be faulted and is particularly adept in its use of cold steel-like colors to add to the cauchemar feeling of the film. Costa-Garvas' direction is lickety-split and sometimes brilliant (his groupings of the pacifist heroes to show simultane-ously their solidarity, strength and fear; the demonstration scenes, which accomplish effortlessly what Haskell Wexler wasted a whole film on in Medium Cool...