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4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 18, 1983 ating RaouF a sick comedy wife fun By JEFF GROVE Arts Editor Sick comedies can be great entertain ment. Arsenic and Old Lace, Sweeney Todd and Harold and Maude can stand aside now to make room for a worthy ad dition to the genre a film called Earing RaouL . The film tells the success (?) story of Paul and Mary Bland, a straight-laced California couple who want to open a country-style restaurant. Their dream is partly a desire to escape their apartment building, which is being overrun by rich swingers. Their, scheme to raise money for the restaurant is a killing-two-birds-with-one-stone proposition: they place an ad in a swingers' newspaper, promoting Mary as "Cruel Carla," an Amazon who for big bucks will fulfill the most bizarre sexual fantasies. Mary leads on customers arriv ing at the Blands' apartment. Before their fantasies reach fulfillment, however, Paul kills them with a frying pan and takes all their money. Things go swimmingly until Raoul, a locksmith who breaks into the houses he re-keys, discovers the scam and threatens to expose it. The story works, and works beautifully, because Paul and Mary, like the Brewster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace, see nothing wrong with what they are doing. Mary innocently rationalizes the murders by saying that she and her husband are getting rid of a bunch of sex perverts, and who's going to miss those sickos, anyway? Aside from their murder-for-profit busi ness, the Elands' lifestyle is stifling in its correctness they don't drink to excess, they eschew profanity and they sleep in separate beds. Credit for the film's success must be spread equally among the four leading per formers. Paul Bart el and Mary Woronov hit it off perfectly as the prudish Blands. 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Mel Gibson's performance is one of the finest and most convincing given in years. . Scott Cain The Atlanta Journal A Peter Weir Film Mel Gibson PG ctlj iippKi Friday: Jb45 5.D0 7:15 9:30 ccr. satujjay, 45 5:00 930 only V x- 9TH WEEK! 3:15 7:30 GAM1DHI DOLBY STEREO MMYi mm mmmEMM u m is s w mi VA kd U imttumW ha MfcnrnT. W W (S IS W V u i . i Hi- ; it-Vfiiiejl?: ft vit w Mj? of Raoul. Add to these a perfectly relaxed performance by Susan Saiger as Doris the Dominatrix, who helps Paul and Mary set up and pull off their scam, and the result is a team of peformers who fit the ins and outs of characterization and comic timing to their own insanely funny purposes. Hie script, written by Bartel with Richard Blackburn, carefully sets up the situation and usually keeps track of its comic purpose. The one major failure in this respect is a drawn-out sequence set at a swingers' party, which comes complete with a hot tub. Not only does the sequence fail to contribute anything to the develops ment of the plot or characterizations, but it also features only one really good gag. Most of the time, though, the story un folds at the right pace, and crams in plenty of laughs along the way. The vignettes in- Volvip" tbp .WH' nittomorc for in stance, are priceless. There are a middle aged man with a severe Oedipus complex, a neo-Nazi who's into torture, a cartoon fan who wants to chase Minnie Mouse, a tripped-out hippie with a rape fantasy, and even a midget with a Great Dane. An even funnier sequence features Paul, at his shyest, attempting to buy some items from the thoroughly obnoxious proprietor of a sleazy adult novelty shop. In addition to writing and acting in the film, Bartel also directs. In this kind of comedy, the, director's major hurdle is organizing the' lead players and the many bit performers into a tightly knit ensemble. Bartel manages this with little or no effort. 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