absurdly overrated vehicle for Marin county anorexics, of interest
only to older men charmed by, but largely excluded from, the
pretentions of the privileged young. also, of course, to historians of
the lesser directors of the old new wave.
the mannered failure of the principal actress to - well - act is
insupportable, and the annoyance is not decreased by a sense
that the director doesnt particularly care, in fact might prefer it that
way. the looseness of his direction is only pointed by the
conspicuousness of passages in which actual actors rebel, and
introduce verve.
in short, a film for the voyeur.