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At The Movies

BEAN
Bean is said to have made more

than $100 million in Europe, a rare
figure there for any film, even swag-
gering American ones. Its arrival over
here raises again the recurrent issue of
Euro-taste in comedy.
No, that is not a welcome mat for
yet another stale round of wisecracks
about Jerry Lewis and the French,
though Bean has some of the tactics
and splat-gun "style" of Lewis' lesser
films of the '60s. What it most has is
Mr. Bean himself, actor Rowan
Atkinson, known to lovers of Brit
comedy for his "Black Adder" and
"Mr. Bean" "telly" shows and videos.
Atkinson is a short, dark, goofy
man. He has a funny face, and he
makes funny faces. His crypt-deep
voice tends to be cryptic, as Mr. Bean
scarcely talks. He does pig snorts and
other strange effects, as though vocal
chords were simply one more body
function.

fiercely nonverbal, and so twitchy he
probably upsets Richter scales.
Of course, Whistler's mom is
doomed. Bean cannot get near such a
major canvas without being a worse
threat than Hermann Goering on a
looting spree.
Atkinson, though no Jacques Tati
(or Jim Carrey), has an instinct for
silliness. But Director Mel Lewis slips
below his work on The Tall Guy to
become sub-Lewis (Jerry), sub-Tati,
almost sub-TV Bean might draw,
mostly the young and undemanding.
It's a fairly amiable half-brainer, if not
a no-brainer. The smog rolling over it
is the realization that Atkinson (and
we) deserve better. Rated PG-13.

— Reviewed by David Elliott

EVE'S BAYOU
In Eve's Bayou, writer/director Kasi

Lemmons gets so many fine details
right, it feels stingy to complain that
these delicately wrought
T, pieces don't always fit
together. But the big screen
g is a big canvas, and for all
i3 its lovely small moments,
2)- Eve's Bayou doesn't quite fill
2 all that space.
Chief among the film's
problems is Lemmons'
decision to tip her hand in
the film's first few minutes.
In hushed voice-over narra-
tion, the grown-up Eve
Batiste reveals the event
that threw her 10-year-old
world into a life-altering
spin. Little Eve is in for
quite an education, and
Rowan Atkinson stars as the title character in the
you're about to spend 100
Mel Smith comedy Bean.
minutes waiting for that
awful shoe to drop.
It was a risky move on
Bean is a guard at the "Royal"
Lemmons' part, and while the story
National Gallery. He tends to fall
doesn't play out quite the way you'd
asleep on the job. The chairman of the
expect, leading off with such a bomb-
Royal, played as a harrumph by John
shell gives Eve's Bayou a wandering,
Mills, protects Bean from being
episodic feel that undercuts its inher-
bounced. But the museum's other gov-
ent drama.
ernors are glad to send him off to Los
Set in small-town Louisiana in the
Angeles, to a spiffy hilltop museum
buttoned-up 1950s, Lemmons' film
(read: Getty), which is getting from
opens with a lively party scene that
the Royal the one, true, gen-u-wine
serves as whirlwind introduction to
Whistler's Mother.
Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson) and
Greeted as a "genius" connoisseur, a
his fascinating, fractious family.
virtual Roger Fry, by the L.A. curator,
There is Louis himself, the charm-
David (Peter MacNicol), Bean is
ing local doctor who is a bit too