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Paul (Sean Bury) and Michell Anice Alvian) read up on the fundamentals about
babies and how they are born in Paris-based romance Friends"
'Friends' is escapist love story
by
Review by
Bill Wallis
Friends is an innocuous
escapist fantasy about
adolescent love.
After the death of her artist
father, Michell (Anicee Alvian).
14'4 arrives in Paris and lives an
unsettled existence with her
older cousin until meeting Paul
(Sean Bury), 15, who is equally
unsettled with a new
step-mother and brother, in a
zoo.
Paul takes Michelle on a joy
ride in his father's car, and
drives it into a lake. Rather
than face their "home"
situations in Paris, the two join
forces and retire to Michelle's
father's rural cottage. Their
friendship grows in intimacy as
Paul assumes the role of
supporter.
With pregnancy comes a
mock marriage ceremony and
the two begin playing house in
earnest. A daughter is born. As
family plans develop for the
three, police detectives trace
Paul to the vineyard where he
works, and the audience is left
to draw its own conclusions as
to Paul and Michelle's future.
A return to Pans would seem
inevitable.
The leisurely story of
I r ic ml s is a relatively
believable Mandard romance.
Unlike Romeo and Julicl,
whose romance quite literally
dies at least partially because
of social complications, Paul
uiid Michelle manage to escape
utterly into a rural haven.
It's all quite nice and
brave-and pointless.
Alvina and Burv are quite
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good. The background for their
story is beautiful southern
France on the Mediterranean
Sea. Wildlife sequences are
reasonably well integrated (as
opposed to the use of similar
sequences in Tiny Shoot
Horses, Don't they '.' which is
more than can be said for
I Hon John's tunes. Or perhaps
I'm just tired of soppy soft
rock.
I he t ilm is rated 'R"
becaus.' of a lair amount of
candid nudity. This will restrict
teenage attendance, which is
too bad because the film is
primarily for that age group.
Films whose tone
sympathizes with the
adolescent point-of-view have
quickly come to popularity
since the spirit of James Dean's
classics were revived by Dust in
Hoffman in The (iruduate and
others. Perhaps the most
excellent recent film of this
group is Summer oj '42 which
opens soon downtown.
Friends is not realistic or
overly-conve .itional in its
approach to human
involvement, but its romance
does not cloy with
sentimentality either. The
viewer doesn't belly-laugh or
cry, but there are calm
moments of beauty and bland
realization.
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Pershing Municipal Auditorium is going to be a busy, busy
place during the next couple of months if things keep going as
now planned.
s most people probably know. The Association is appearing
at the Auditorium on Saturday, Sept. IS at 8 p.m. Ticket prices
for the seven-member group are S3, $4 and $5.
STARTING IN mid-October the Auditorium has lined up
some extremely fine concerts. On Oct. 13, James Taylor will be
coming to the building. The Oct. 16 Steppenwolf concert has
since fallen through, but has been replaced by an Oct. 1 9 concert
by Black Sabbath. And then on Oct. 28, Grand Funk will be
rolling into town. . ,
The month of November looks just as good, with I en Years
After coming to the Auditorium on November 5 and The
Doors booked into the building on Nov. 1 3.
With such an impressive schedule of concerts on the book, Ike
Hoig, manager of Pershing Auditorium, should be praised for
nutting out extra-effort in getting these groups for Lincoln.
The concept of Lincoln's Free Theatre has been saved!
OPENING AT 8 p.m. on Friday Sept. 1 7, and running through
Monday, Sept. 20, FDR-l.SD Frcakout will be performed in the
Ballroom of the Nebraska Union by the Free Theatre company,
under the sponsorship of the Free University.
Admission is still free, but as stated in Monday's column,
anyone who wants to make a contribution to the company after
the show is certainly welcome to. All contributions will go to the
Free University for the continuance of the Free Theatre.
Paul Baker, co-originator of the Free Theatre and author and
director of FDR-l.DS Frcakout, said that the play is about sever
actors who get together, take acid and try to improvise a play.
How about giving the Free Theatre a chance and going to see
their first show.
Tickets for the Nebraska Union Foreign Films Society will be
on sale until Sept. 24, in the main lobb; of the Student Union or
in Ihe Program Office of the Union.
THE FILMS this year are The Passions of Anna, Kcs, Fa Belle
Aiverieaine. The Harden oj Delights, J.cs Riches. Adalen .?. The
Bicycle Thief, Knije in ' the Water, Wild Child, Mr. Hulot's
Holiday, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Contempt, Round Vp, The
Milky Way, Au llasard Balthazar and The Shameless Old lady.
Student prices for films is $8.24.
Another new theatre group. The Mud Slim Slide Players,
has been organized and is presenting a show called The (las l ight
Vaudeville Review at the Gas Light Theatre, 322 South 9th
Street, on Friday and Saturday nights at 9 p.m., with opening
night Friday, Sept. 1 7.
ACCORDING TO the "players," the review is not a
mellerdrammer, but does contain some of the same elements as a
mellerdrammer. The show includes two melodrama farces, The
Great Bottleneck Diamond" and Barrooms in One Night," two
recitations with pantomine accompaniment, '"Guilty or Not
Guilty" and "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter," and a comedy
farce, "Freezing a Mother-in-Law."
L very thing from soft drinks to alcoholic beverages (Mr. Booze)
is sold at the Gaslight, along with popcorn for eating or throwing.
Tickets cost $2.
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