It has been well publicized that Luchino Visconti was the first filmmaker, some twenty years previous, to have been approached by producer Nicole Stéphane to adapt Proust, and though that arrangement would not be hard to imagine, it is hard to imagine that the outcome would have been as arid as this. Thinly characterized, but thickly carpeted, upholstered, gloved, scarved, top-hatted, smoking-jacketed, mustached, etc., the movie at best, like a Visconti movie at worst, is a monument to the combined arts of the interior decorator, the haberdasher, the barber, et al. Oh, and the cosmetic surgeon: Ornella Muti, as any who have watched her take off her clothes over the years cannot fail to notice, must herewith be added to the lengthening roll of actresses who appear to have had some of their anatomical furniture restored and repadded. With Jeremy Irons, Alain Delon, and Fanny Ardant; directed by Volker Schlondorff. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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