Friday, Jan. 13, 1967

Something Nue

The Game Is Over. Some people (including Roger Vadim) consider Roger Vadim an artist. Some don't. What is certain is that he won fame and fortune by displaying his wives on the screen without any clothes on. He got his start by exhibiting Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, and he now presents his third wife, Jane Fonda, in the latest elucubration of the Vadim for mula: lacking something new to say, give them something nue to look at.

In The Game Is Over, which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curee) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair dryer.

The settings are inexorably exotic, and the color camera brings to life every hue and nuance of every buttock. Indeed it leaves no stern untoned.

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