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i i i i Id II i Vi (QJ This subtitled French picture is not a sequel to Cousin, Cousine, although there's a lot in it to remind you of that popular film also by Jean-Charles Tacchella. surdity has its moments, although one needs a strong stomach for some of the sick jokes. (NRC, Hoyts Entertainment Centre.) developing over the glaciers is childish. The sequence obviously took several flights to film and undoubtedly the whole exercise had its dangers. Far better to have frankly acknowledged the presence and work of the camera crews, and to have kept to the actual events of the flight, which were exciting enough.

(G, Hoyts Entertainment Centre.) measure, The Heretic turns into a mini-disaster movie with its own mini-earthquake, accompanied by noises which are a steal from the "sen-surround" effects of the film, Earthquake. These rumbles come from loudspeakers situated under the screen, and are used literally to shake up the audience during Burton's final confrontation with the evil one. There are innumerable perils for the plump and rosy Linda, whose demon apparently wasn't entirely exorcised after all, and for her new father confessor. Burton, and her dedicated psychiatrist, Louise Fletcher. Exorcist number one was nasty twaddle.

The Heretic, to give it a slightly different definition, is nasty drivel. With it the Hollywood superstition bonanza surely reaches rock bottom. Village Cinema, City, Double Bay, Mos-man, P'matta, Blacktown and Gosford.) marked the onset of per-' missiveness in the direction of the screaming horrors. This story described as Exorcist No 2, brings back some of the first film's old stuff, particularly those Jekyll-and-Hyde vampire-type transporma-tions by which the fresh face of Linda Blair was bloated and smeared into a hideous mask. Another horror standby this time is scientific hocus-pocus, in the shape of a wired-up medical contraption which emits bleeps and flashes, to delve into memory-corners where the devil lingers.

The script labours long, bringing forth locusts this time, as the insect form in which the evil spirit has now hidden itself, seen in dream-sequences in darkest Africa. As a last desperate LrUH Fire Sale The Fikus family are horrors. There's Pop to be laughed at (he keels over with a stroke and is toted round and tossed about like a sack of potatoes). And daft Mom, who organises a bridge foursome on her husband's deathbed. And son, trying to keep the family business, a clothing emporium, from bankruptcy, who suffers from choking asthma attacks whenever his father is mentioned.

And Uncle, a war invalid who lives in a lunatic asylum this film thinks mad people are mighty funny, too. Alan Arkin, who directed this preposterous burlesque, plays the younger son who consoles his childless wife by adopting a son for he selects a seven-foot Negro boy who he plans to sell to a basketball team. The outrageous ab Off the Edge This feature-length documentary is divided between travelogue New Zealand scenery and sports thrills for ski and hans-slider enthusiasts. The hang-gliding cli max comes after a build up of beautiful South Island mountain climbing and ski-ing. Two young ski and hang-gliding experts, Jeff Campbell and Blair Tren- holme, finally reach their high peak and float down over the icy wastes on i bright-coloured wines.

The American-ac cented commentary is glib, and the pretense of daneerous situations FWW This time Tacchella tackles a littie more than he can manage. Following on his Cousine success, with its large family, much joie de vivre, and plenty of good food, he now takes on a whole village, organises feasts and tuck-ins galore, and continues to imply that the French are the happiest, most irresistible people on earth. The scene is lovely Provence, the village you would love to come across on your European holiday. The inhabitants are a cross-section of happy families, made up of eccentrics, con-used misfits, lat folk and thin folk, and the two lovers at the centre of the picture, who have no problems. They just love (shown with French modesty at its best), enjoy scrumptious lood, and have a tremendous good time scampering about the countryside.

The audience js meant to have a love.y time scampering with them, and unless you find this all a bit pointless, endless, and cute, it's full of the kind of quaint vignettes expected of a witty French comedy. Brigitte Fossey as the happy nurse who lives in a farmhouse which looks as if it came out of Vogue magazine, and Jacques Serrez as her unorthodox rustic swain, we not as interesting a pair as the naughty couple of Cousin Cousine. But the country atmosphere is tres tres unpol luted. (M Hoyts Enter tainment Centre). The Heretic After Max Von Sydow as a priest-exorcist, Richard Burton is a priest-heretic in this sequel to Regan's adventures with the demon.

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