playwrite2000
Joined Apr 2002
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I loved Dewaere in Series Noir. His talent is trivialized in "The Waltzers" aka "Going Places". Okay, it's a couple of guys flaunting convention in the most absurd and irredeemable ways; many folks find such behavior amusing. This was a boring, pointless exercise designed to shock. I find the smirk on Blier's face, the face behind the camera, annoying. Series Noir was a valid expression of personal liberty and licentious behavior. From the first moment when we see Patric Dewaere prancing in the abandoned lot we get an idea of the bewilderingly beautiful anti-hero we'll be spending time with for the next couple of hours. When we see him chasing the hapless middle aged female with his buddy Depardieu in "Going Places" we have fair warning that two hours spent with these chaps will be soul-draining. I have trouble eking even a "3" for this annoying distraction.
Maracas shaking beach boys; Ava in a semi stupor; Burton phoning in his lines; Deborah Kerr doing her prissy thing. Ah, the blight of the iguana, loved my many, loathed by few. An empty pastiche of TW's wet dreams. Everybody was having too much fun after hours to bring much to the chore of making this phantasmagorical elegy work. The sole professional who lives her role and centers the story is the woman named Fellowes (get it?). She did her thing, got her nomination and went on to pay the rent doing TV. As a professional actor, I watch the neglect these performers brought to their roles and marvel at how carefully Grayson etched a character that could easily have become the caricature all the others parade in front on us. This is a vapid, pointless film. To be avoided.