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THE MICHIGAN .DAILY:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1967
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Mademoiselle: Erotie Depravity
In a Menaerie o Horrors
First Godard Film:
Vivid, Disappointing
By BETSY COHN
"Mademoiselle," while trying to
shock the viewer into' a realiza-
tion of the bestiality of man, be-
comes an annoying menagerie of
horrors too tough for any humane
society to handle.
Jean Moreau ("Mademoiselle) is
the school matron in a small
French village. She is a miserable,
twisted mouth spinster whose sup-
pressed frustrations are released
in perversion, cruelty and gro-
tesque distortion.
The story unfurls its brittle
substance as Moreau becomes en-
twined in a fascination with the
bronzed anatomy of the new Ital-
lian (Ettore Mann). Her rendez-
vous with Manni occurs strangely
and vicariously. After Adonis rit-
uals before the .mirror, she puts
on her black mesh gloves, a knit
shawl and humbly begins her noc-
turnal'terrorizations. Great digni-
ty is upheld throughout, as the
lady burns barns, floods live-
stocks and feeds poison to throngs
of animals.
In each of thees little escapades,
the handsome Italian serves -in
turn as the bare-chested hero,
leaping from sizzling haylofts leav-
ing the ladies breathless from his
aerial ventures. The vulture-like
insidiousness of Mademoiselle and
the beefy brawiness of the Ital-
ian are finally (although not co-
incidentally) brought together by
the sinuous linking of a snake.
Shortly after, the movie comes to
the climax that must be expected
from the sadistic flavor which it
delights in savoring throughout,
The direction of "Mademoiselle"
by Tony Richardson is almost an
antithesis to the writing of Genet.
Richardson's previous films have
all been clean-cut, bouncy ditties
of English middle class life, in-
formative and humorous ("Tom
Jones," "Saturday Night, Sunday
Morning," "The Loneliness of the
Long Distance Runner"). They are
narrations rather than revelations
or analyses.
Genet's .writing, on the other
hand, is.a constant groping for the
criminal and depravity in noan.
His characters, like Mademoiselle,
are a panorama of evil (in this
case, erotic evil)-. Combined 'with
Richardson's direction, the grotes-
queness of the images are vivid,
distinct and unforgettable.
Yet, the justification for such
perversion is questioned; when
mademoiselle is reduced to no more
than a lustful animal in heat,
when all the scenes of cruelty and
depravity focus on animals and
nature, one is ready to acknowl-
edge the fact of bestiality, sexual
repression, its consequences, etc.
Yet these topics, as presented in
"Mademoiselle" seem to be merely
an excuse, rather than an expla-
nation, for the movie to dwell on
distortion, depravity and shock.
By PAUL SAWYER
Jean-Luc Godard, the freewheel-
ing, exuberant young iconoclast of
the European cinema, sumarizes
the essence of his art, it seems to
me, in a quote appearing in the
booklet the Cinema Guild has
prepared for its six-day Godard
festival: "How to render the in-
sides?" he says. "By wisely stay-
ing on the outside."
This would hardly seem new
coming from an austere classicist
like Bresson; on the other hand,
the current avant-garde infatua-
tion with "form" and' technical.
showiness, to which Godard is
related, rarely seems interested in
getting to the inside of anything.
In "Breathless" Godard showed
how it could be done; and, in "A
Woman is a Woman," a comedy
playing tonight at the Cinema
Guild, he shows how a kind of
psychological realism can be
evoked by means of what looks
like a grab-bag of sight gags, in-
jokes, technical tricks, and Michel
Legrand.
For although on the immediate
level, "A Woman is a Woman"
seems to dissolve from one joke
into another all the way through,
one never loses the sense of some-
thing happening on a realistic
level underneath it all. First, by
the abandonment of plot, Godard
allows the characters to move
about almost aimlessly and to
say all kinds of things, including
ad libs, which are often of no
intrinsic significance, but which
eventually add up by accretion to
an effective formation of charac-
ter. Second, the sight gags and
seemingly capricious technical
tricks are inseparable from the
mood of what is going on, and
they reflect what is really hap-1
pening inside the characters'
heads.
With all this, it is not surpris-
ing that this film still fails really
to get "inside" anything; it is'
primarily and deliberately a ca-1
price. Its great success is a clever
portrait of a very charming girl,
but- this succeeds largely; because
the actress, Anna Karina, is
allowed just to play herself
throughout her role. The otherj
men are not so interesting; Jean-
Claude Brialy came out little more
than an irritable bore for me. The
variety of comic and whimsical
techniques is greatnbut none of
it is really brilliant. But it is fun,
and worth your time.
Across
Campus.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11
4:00 p.m.-"The Young Rad-
ical," a symposium with writer-
in-residence Leslie A. Fiedler,
Mike Zweig, Prof. Tonsor, and
Ed Robinson will be held in the
UGLI Multipurpose Room.
7:00 and 9:05 p.m. - Cinema
Guild will present Jean-Luc Go-
dard's "Une Femme Est Une
Femme" in the Arch. Aud.
7:30 p.m. - Prof. M. M. Tho-
mas, visiting professor of theology
at Union Theological Seminary,
wil speak on "Communism, Dem-
ocracy and Social Revolution" in
Aud, A, Angell Hall.
8:00 p.m. - Mr. Iver Richard,
member of Parliament, will speak
on "Labour's Prospects in Britain"
on the sixth floor of the Institute
of Social Research.
8:00 p.m. - Ralph Muncy,
Chinn., State Central Committee
of the Socialist Larbor Party, will
discuss "The Un-American In-
volvenent of the U.S. Government
in Vietnam" in Rm. C-100, Ann
Arbor High School.
THURSDAY, JAN. 12
4:00 p.m. - Leslie A. Fiedler,
writer-inresidence, will speak on
"The Responsibility to Be Free,"
in Aud. A, Angell Hall.
7:00 and 9:05 p.m. - Cinema
Guild will present Jean-Luc Go-
dard's "Alphaville" in the Arch.
Aud.
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Mathematical Association . of Amer-
ica: Will show a film, "Can You Hear
the Shape *of a Drum?".starring Mark
Kac, Thurs., Jan. 12, 4 p.m., 2225 An-
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grants to support research within the
scope of the term "peaceful uses of
nuclear energy." The . Project is par-
ticularly interested in studies concerned
with: Biological Effects of Radiation.
Radiation Disometry, New Uses of Iso-
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Conversion of Nuclear Energy to Elec-.
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Proliferation an'd Disarmament, Psy-
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duction. The Project will not support-
Work whose only relation to nuclear
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Grants will be made by April 1, 1967.
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trom the office of the Phoenix Proj-
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ing 764-6213.
College of Engineering and Institute
of Science and Technology Colloquium:
Prof. A. B. Rosenstein of the Engi-
neering Department, University of Cali-
fornia at .Los Angeles, will speak on:
"Synthesizing the' Engineering Curric-
ulum," on Thurs.. Jan.. 12, at 4 p.m.
in Room 229 West Engineering Bldg.
His talk will be preceded by a coffee
hour at, 3:30 p.m. The public is cordial-
ly invited.
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