C6 - Friday, September 7, 1984 - North Shore News

ME entertainment

Film venture up-in-the-air

‘““HOW the hell did I get up here?’’ asks a
bewildered Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder), as he
crouches on a narrow ledge outside his girlfriend’s
apartment, high above the streets of San Fransisco.

Wilder might well be ask-
ing himself the same question
as writer-director ard prin-
cipal character in his latest
comedy film, The Woman In
Red.

An American re-make of
the French film Pardon Mon
Affaire, The Woman In Red
leaves Wilder on a narrow
ledge of comedy, with barely
enough room to get a few
laughs. It’s an old plot with
no new twists. Middle age
and the consequences of in-
fidelity for the happily mar-
ried man.

Teddy Pierce is a quiet,
successful advertising consul-
tant with two kids, an attrac-
tive wife and an altogether
ordinary life. Until the day
an alluring, sensual woman
called Charlotte (Kelly La
Brock) waves the red in front
of him. Charlotte dances
over top of a ground level
ventilation shaft, billowing
her red dress up around her
arms and revealing her long,
leggy looks to Teddy.

Shy, hesitant Teddy
becomes a raging bull, ready

W.VAN ARTIST

By COLIN LAMONT

to charge in and claim
Charlotte, throwing caution
to the winds and all thoughts
of marriage from his mind.
Wilder plays his part with
competence but no imagina-
tion. There is no straying
from a dull plot, no new lines
and no sudden twists. Teddy
is just another quiet, sensitive
guy who sets out to make a
sexual fantasy come true.

Most of Teddy’s friends
are having their own extra-
marital affairs with the same
predictable results. A wife
dumps one and phone calls in
the middle of the night send
another off to the bed of his
girlfriend while her husband
is off at work. In one of the
few scenes with any depth to
it all, Teddy’s gay frend
Buddy gets dumped after
cheating on his lover, but
finds that Teddy is ready to
offer moral support.

The woman in red,
Charlotte, is well cast as Kel-
ly La Brock, who turns in a

Photos honored

PHOTOGRAPHY by Stefan
Schulhof, of Schulof
Photography in West Van-
couver, has been selected for
display in the 1984 print col-
lection, a series of top scoring
entries from the Professional
Photographers of Canada
annual photographic
competition.

Less than 20 per cent of the
approximate 1200 entries
achieved this honor.

Twelve specially qualified
jurors selected photographs
for the collection on the basis
of impact, color harmony
and balance, composition,

~~

PM auaentte Ally _ .

technical quality and other
characteristics.

The print collection will
first be displayed at the
PPOC’s 1984 convention
August 25-28, at the Skyline
Hotel, Toronto. Schulhof
receives six merits for each
Piece of photography ac-
cepted in the print collection.
Merits are applied toward
PPOC's Master of
Photographic Arts degree
which requires 150 print and
speaking merits.

PPOC represents profes-
sional photographers coast to
coast’ with approximately
1200 members and affiliates.

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lively performance. But Le
Brock is hampered by a poor
script with corny lines like,
‘‘l want you more than I have
ever wanted any other man,’’
as she whispers to Teddy in
her seduction scene. And that
is the main problem with this
film. The characters are so
narrow that the audience can
expect few, if any, surprises. ~~

The film’s musical score by
Stevie Wonder is one of the
better merits of this movie
but it is not enough to carry
the cast over a boring, all-
too-familiar script. The
message of this film seems to
be that married life is really
better than one night stands,
but after watching this film,
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of a little excitement, even
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