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RDO
kicked my ass on this film. He had it
done last week, and I just finished
watching it for the first time. I have to
say I was disappointed in the quality,
for a movie which won so many awards. The
performances are real, and it certainly
avoids a happy cop-out ending, but it
ends with two poorly-executed scenes. The
second-last scene, Regnier's suicide,
which should be the dramatic focus,
follows an interminably long diary entry
by Bouchez, in which the camera just
stands over her shoulder as she writes,
and writes, and writes, and writes. I
must say, I've never considered writing
much of a spectator sport. For sheer
excitement, it may beat Cricket and Noh
Theatre, but I wasn't planning to spend
any time on those. The final scene is an
anti-climax where Bouchez goes back to
her same dreary existence in another
factory like the one where she met
Regnier, as if the entire episode had
been merely - dream-life. I didn't find
this to have whatever dramatic effect the
director was planning. I just felt like I
was watching those out-takes, like they
used to show at the end of Hal Needham
movies. Anyway, Regnier did an explicit
and rather rough sex scene, as well as a
tender scene with the fat ugly guy.
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