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riends' sequel dull o 7T7 rr? V i t i i u f ; I (51jz cUar Itel A " j i - cJi' H. j mnm L rntm . . i; i 1 1 V 13 SI by Harvey Elliott Fim Crltlo Paul and Michelle, the two kids who ran away to the south of France and lived a romantic existence loving and conceiving and birthing a baby in Lewis Gilbert's 197 1 film Friends, are back, three years older and a lot less interesting. Not that they were very interesting to begun with. The earlier film managed to succeed mainly because of the intrinsic curiousness of a situation in which very young teenagers were required to act like adults. Friends had a good deal of charm and always managed to stop just short of mawkishness. Now that Paul and Michelle are older teenagers required to act like older teenagers, there is no intrinsic curiousness, and what's left are the bare bones of a love story, padded with trendy relevance and weighted down w ith dialogue of unrelieved triteness. In case you've been waiting to find out what happened after Paul's family whisked him back to England to finish prep school back in 1971, Paul and Michelle recapitulates the intervening events with all the speed and subtlety of a soap opera. It even throws in a few flashbacks, with footage, naturally, from the first film. (Gilbert has directed Chapter Two, too.) Anyway, Paul finishes prep school, to his father's joy. To his father's horror, however, he takes off immediately for the Continent to find Michelle. She, meanwhile, has been living in Nice with her child (the one who was born in the Camargue cottage in Friends) and an unctuous American airline employe, played in a cool, affected manner by Keir Dullea. A little is made of the girl's divided loyalties between Paul and Garry, but not much. (Just as little, but not much, is made of Michelle's divided attitude, later in the film, toward her second pregnancy.) In fact, the only thing that seems to matter to Paul and M ichelle (and even Garry) and the director treats - this not only with seriousness but with downright reverence is sex. It's what their whole relationship here is based upon, and it nullifies and makes the earlier film false. They never seem to have a prolonged conversation about anything. After Paul and Michelle are reunited and they've been together for a couple of hours Michelle asks him, "Have 1 changed?" With a glint in his eye, Paul replies "Let me see you," and she unbuttons her dress. She is still disturbed about her divided loyalties to her men, but after lovemaking with Paul for the first time in three years, she says simply "How could I for one moment - m - : j 7 f J-f A, OPEN SEVEN DAYS-ALL DAY. Hunt-Seat Equitation Denting Trail Hides Doily Very Reasonable Rates. Please Make Appointment In Advance. Call: 493-1842 Georga King Rd.. Durham, 3 Milss From Eastgata Shopping Center 7 1 . Pay for 3 games, 4th F R IE E 2. 3-5 p.m. surprise discount hours including it" ll Games 3. Daily drawing for F Ifa SEE games. 4. Red Pin Bowling every Friday night 7-1 1 p.m. CAROLINA UNION BOWLING LANES Monday-Friday 10 a.m. -11 p.m. 'Sunday 5:30-11 p.m. Ground Level ' Student Union Building Summir Leagues Forming Bowling Classes Available AMF Ct Brunswick Equipment Sold I 0 Neal's lt) is b"nging a bit of Y &rS ONTE CARLO liiL, 0 to Chapel Hill ... I UNj w!rt) (June ll-June 15) I should be fun, and V ! If ycu'va got a touch of ths , - r U5 QQ V I like to e;vs monsy on fins - 1 c ' f t t ?J Neal's thinks tzss should be fun, and more than a littia adventurous. If vcu'va cot a touch of the 2mb!in3 spirit (and if you Uka to S2V9 monsy on fine e'athts-who dc::n't!l), then corns to tizzVt Potpourri this week end spin the Wht2l to t-3 what discount you and Lady Luck can draw! I University Squaro ') J Next to Granviil? Towers from 5-25 ON ALL MERCHANDISE (except previous sale items) have doubted?" Everything between them is physical, so it's hard to work much sympathy up for their trials, their separations, their hardships. There hasn't been one intelligent conversation in the film! Whenever it leaves the central characters for a few moments, the film flounders in its own unoriginality. Paul's father is brought on for two scenes of generation-gap mania. After Paul and M ichelle go to Paris where he is enrolled at the Sorbonne, we are treated to one pot-party scene and one rioting-student-demonstrators scene, both to no purpose whatsoever. By way of additional characterization, we are given two reunions of Michelle and Garry, who has suddenly turned into Mr. Nice Guy, understanding all. A few medical students appear intermittently. The end of Paul and Michelle leaves director Gilbert with a big opportunity to make still another installment. Apparently, he's even planned it for 1977, since there's a lot of talk about "in just three years..." during the last few, minutes of the movie. ! Films, Records, TV It's a personal thing he's working out. Not a director noted for his artistry his biggest commercial hits have been Alfie, You Only Live Twice and 77ie Adventurers Gilbert did achieve an amount of respect for Loss of Innocence, a 1961 film which dealt with adolescence, as did Friends. Friends wasn't an enormous hit. It supposedly did very well in Mexico and Japan, but these markets are hardly lucrative enough to warrant a sequel (or two). Gilbert, in fact, seems to be much more interested in Paul and Michelle than is the rest of the world. It's a pity he can't transmit that fascination to us. by CD Gaines Asst. Features Editor Passport Looking Thru (Atco) And now, from the country that brought you Ludwig van Beethoven, we proudly present Klaus Doldinger. European jazz with a classical influence. The album begins with Doldinger on the Moog and Mellotron creating a mood similar to that of Walter Carlos's Clockwork Orange. Then Kristian Schultze of Passport lays some jazzy organ riffs on top of the Moog sounds, and Eternal Spiral takes off. A quiet, little electric piano statement is all there is to be found in Zwischenspiel. Anyone who can wait this long through the album gets his reward when Doldinger picks up the soprano sax and begins Rockport. Side two is where he really saxes up the music up beginning with Tarantula which rivals Rockport as the best cut on the album. On this side, the ghost-like echoes of the saxes haunt the music, and themes arc repeated frequently. The final song. Things to Come, has the Bcethoven-a la Clockwork Orange influence that was in Eternal Spiral. but it has a musical theme similar to that in Rockport. The real classical influence of the old German music on this group is the mini symphony that begins with Rockport on the end of side one and continues on the second side. All these songs have a coherence of theme and instrument that is enough to make one believe that if Beethoven were alive today, he'd be recording on Atco. ft Don't tomorrow !!; babysits chimp. A'.V.V.'.V.V.V.V.V.V TV Notes miss Captain Kangaroo morning. The Captain for PrlsciHa, a baby Mohasco Furniture Rental Company 1819 New Hope Church Road Raleigh, N.C. Phone 876-7550 S TUDENT RA TES AVAILABLE FROM $15.00 PER MONTH N1 V-aT ii .Hiiiinnpnni il uliji .miii.au uui U1JUUU '..III "-m .i-'i !. -J1 1 111 '" 'mi sf LOOK WO FURTE-1ER THAN NIV . . . a promenade of fine shops and services in "downtown" Chapel Hill , A p 01 Next to Granville Towers Within Walking Distance of UNC Campus PLENTY OF FREE PARKING For Father . . . on Father's Day " ' June 16 i les O Belts O Shirts '7 O Chess Sets 1 1 .,- 1 A Great Gift Idea! 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