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Yoyo (1965)
Tati copy
While Tati seemed to love performers this film abuses them, its seriously unfunny. The actors are fine but they are treated shoddily. The film maker seems to want to denigrate live performers. It's inventiveness is not enough salvage it's integrity.. Check out any Tati movie and compare the framing the narrative and the characterization to appreciate how trite this film is by comparison. Oddly it was made AFTER Tati's heyday. One would hope something had been learned. French satire by its very nature is somewhat lame, but this is embarrassing. It's as though Germany had won in 1871 and infected European story telling.
A Kind of Loving (1962)
The real star
June Ritchie makes this story work. She gives an unaffected portrayal of a young woman needing to overcome her vulnerability with a combination of guile and passive aggression. It's the truest and most honest performance in the film. Bates is a star, Ritchie works a miracle. James bolam is quietly brilliant and. The supporting cast is of the salt of the earth type of genius available to directors at that time. I did not read the book but I feel the this movie version makes the task unnecessary.? What a great period of story telling this was. Bates was wonderful on film but on stage he was even more special. I was lucky to experience both. His hamlet. Though forgotten, was so pure, so honest, so sexy.
Dear Heart (1964)
Terrific acting
Watched the first three minutes and was so taken with Geraldine Page's performance I spent noon til two glued to the TV. All the acting is wonderful with Glenn Ford at his best and Angela Lansbury at her usual level of excellence. Im about to look up who wrote and directed this. The combination of wit, charm and, above all, restraint is intoxicating. Any student of acting should watch Geraldine's perf over and over to watch how she plays against the pathos and chooses the sunny choice in a character that in other hands would fade into the shadows of sentimentality. The ending is strangely abrupt. If they wanted to end it suddenly they should have let her settling onto her suitcase in Penn station with studied delight be the final image.