Sunday 27 July 2014

The April Fools (1969 Stuart Rosenberg)

Lemmon is terrific as usual as unhappily married man who finds himself drawn to unhappily married woman Catherine Deneuve, who is every bit as good as he is. They meet at a sort of pop art party given by her husband Peter Lawford, which is quite an eyeful, then move on to an even worse safari themed nightclub, finally ending the evening in the delightful company of Myrna Loy and fencing mad husband Charles Boyer.




 Jack Weston is in it again, Sally Kellerman plays Jack's wife.

Written by Hal Dresner, who also adapted a TV series of Catch-22 with Richard Dreyfuss...Apparently only one episode aired...

I was a little worried that the ending was going to reflect The Graduate - but then he takes her hand... These two will be OK...

Shot by Michel Hugo in Panavision; somewhat choppy editing by Bob Wyman.

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