![]() ![]() a dull, pointless, ineptly acted vulgarization of a distinguished play, with nothing to recommend it beyond some attractive color photography." Awards New York Times reviewer Eugene Archer called the film "a total debacle. And that big poster of me, nude! Vadim resented it too." "To me it was a great big opportunity to do a beautiful comedy and my first costume picture," recalled Fonda. She subsequently sued the producers for $3 million. The movie was advertised in New York with an eight-story billboard in Times Square that displayed a nude Fonda. Writing in The Observer, Kenneth Tynan called the film "a masterpiece of colour photography" and "the nearest approach to an organised work of art that M. ![]() Anouilh and Vadim stick closely to Arthur Schnitzler's original but the film is obviously embroidered with imagery of Vadim's creation - a visual superfluity." ![]() The Guardian praised the film's color and production values but added "there is a vulgarity about Vadim's frequent fleshy close ups which compares sadly. One French reviewer said that Jane Fonda had a "French accent a la Laurel et Hardy." The film was released in the United States as a dubbed version that Vadim loathed this inspired him to make his next film, The Game Is Over, in both English and French versions. Ĭatherine Spaak later claimed that Vadim was so focused on Fonda during the making of the film that "everyone suffered." Reception ĭuring filming, Jane Fonda began a romantic relationship with Vadim that continued for several years. There is the influence of priests in censorship no rule forbids you to discuss the church but they will stop you somehow. It is very difficult in France to talk about anything but sex! Politics, the army, the police, Catholicism - in that order. But when I do something I like to go to the end with what I express. When I make a picture about relations between people, something erotic comes through I can't help it! But sex has been an inspiration, the greatest inspiration, since art exists.
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