The enduring cliché here is that a run-on revel, especially one conducted in fresh-air countryside (cf. Rules of the Game, Smiles of a Summer Night), will progressively ruffle the feathers and pluck the feathers of the assembled guests, and will produce dazzling glimpses of their unmentionables underneath. These Swiss clucks, a stuffy middle-class flock from an in-town office, arrive at the commonest of destinations — a scuffle, a — and the director, Claude Goretta, achieves a snooty sophistication by keeping them at a ten-foot-pole distance, shooting them full-figure much of the time, as in a Blondie-and-Dagwood comic strip. Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean Champion. (1973) — Duncan Shepherd
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