Set in a flooded London of 2008, this presents a lower-tide variation on two of the milestones of British science fiction, John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World. From them it gets its only worthwhile idea. From lesser sources it gets its post-apocalyptic gunslinger (calf-length slicker, …
A hymn -- no, nothing so exalted -- a bellow, rather, in praise of youthful libido and its acrobatic, button-bursting, zipper-popping expression. After ten minutes of watching these blond beauties cavort at their Pepsi-generation pace, you might decide that they could be better occupied sitting quietly and reading Stendhal. And …
Funny idea, sort of, to identify the modern-day bounty hunter here as the great-grandson of the Wild West bounty hunter on the old TV series of the same name. And that could have been, as intended, the end of it — a frivolous funny idea along with such other ones …
War and its impact reduced to the small scale, the homefront, the subjective viewpoint. Andre Delvaux's surrealist predilections are not altogether absent, but are stilled somewhat in this tidy, precise, straight-ahead narrative about a Belgian housewife's long hard road to personal independence. A nice alternative to the sprawling and stumbling …