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Bujold begins a kinky love affair with Beverly, and shares not only her body but her drug habit. The drugs seem to release the craziness that has always been potential inside of him, and although his twin tries to cover for him, their lives eventually fly into pieces. In one particularly gruesome sequence, Beverly invents some new surgical instruments that look like daydreams by the Marquis de Sade and uses them in a bloody operation that looks like what you do to the turkey before the stuffing goes in.
After again starring with Belmondo in de Broca's L'Incorrigible, Bujold made 1976's Swashbuckler to appease Universal. Brian DePalma's Vertigo homage Obsession resuscitated her career, although the follow-up, John Korty's Alex and the Gypsy, was a disappointment.
Bujold is magnificently subtle in these scenes. Whenever a hint of emotion creeps in, her features seem to clench as if she were fighting desperately not to feel. Mixing sadness with self-possession, and dignity with turbulence, she shows the downside to lowered expectations. When the immigration officials begin to snoop around to see whether the couple are indeed married, she reacts with the petulance of a spoiled child. She feels violated, forced to open up, and when Pablo moves in to prepare for their interview with immigration, she blocks his questions about the details of her life as if she were fending off blows. She refuses to let down her guard.
Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out of jail. Alex arranges to have Maritza released into his custody, but while their romance begins to blossom once again, their relationship is still doomed to failure. This downbeat romantic comedy was based on the novel The Bailbondsman by Stanley Elkin. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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The story begins in 1959, at a party hosted by real estate developer Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) and his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold), who are celebrating their tenth anniversary. After the guests have gone home, the two settle in for the night and begin to make love, when they are interrupted by the screams of their only child, nine-year-old Amy. Elizabeth goes to the girl's room to investigate, and when she doesn't return, Michael follows to find that both mother and daughter have been kidnapped. A ransom note demands that he pay $500,000 for their safe return -- and not contact the police. Which is where Michael makes a tragic mistake.
Synopsis: Ten years earlier, George's mother (Genvieve Bujold) ran over his younger brother in the family driveway and killed him. Since then, she's been permanently out to lunch, and he has many responsibilities around the house. He's a teenager now, with the usual insecurities that go along with that, butRead More
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