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1 i I NO MOVIE TONIGHT DUE TO THIRD WORLD THE WAILERS IN CONCERT! $2.50 ALL SHOWS 546-1 687 NO HOLDS BARRED I ROAD HOUSE (PO-13) (R) 7:00, 9:15 7:00, 9:15 sayaTtthiwg dangerous liaisons UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAREFREE to JAZZ SHOW OF THE YEAR! JUNE 28 7:30 10PM STANLEY CLARKE GEORGE DUKE PROJECT HE Tonight! 7:30 10:30 REGGAE THIRD WORLD STARS THE WAILERS Svetlana (Camilla Soeberg) prefers sex to starting a revolution in Dusan Makavejev's bizarre mix of sex and politics. A quirky 'Manifesto' of sex and revolution Preferred Seating Dinner Packages Available rCDCCDCC B0X OFFICE OPEN 7 DAYS 11 AM-9PM Vt1lCrlE'C Available at Ticketmaster Locations 2000 saDixPeeHwv Ticket Information 833-7305 2000 s. Dixie Hwy To order by phone (407) 839-3900 Movie Review mnmmmmi MANIFESTO CREDITS: With Camilla Soeberg, Alfred Molina, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan and Eric Stoltz. Written and directed by Dusan Makavejev, based on the story "For a Night of Love" by Emile Zola. 96 minutes.

NOT RATED: Explicit sex, extensive nudity, violence. NOW PLAYING: Sarasota Film Society's Focus On Film series, Delray Square Theaters, 4809 W. Atlantic Delray Beach, Sat. and Sun. at 1 1 a.m.

only. LAST 3 NIGHTS! From 'Saturday Night Live 6 "Hoxanne KEVIN NEALON He'll 'pump you up" will) comedy I With Greg Schwem -t ten By MICHAEL MILLS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Writer-director Dusan Makave-jev, the quirky talent behind Montenegro and The Coca-Cola Kid, returns to his native Yugoslavia for Manifesto, an exceedingly bizarre concoction of sex and politics, two of his favorite subjects. The film is in English, although it might as well be in some obscure language without subtitles because the words and actions of this gallery of nutty characters are almost incomprehensible. It's as if Maka-vejev developed an intricate set of private symbols and then neglected to decode them for us. Loosely adapted from the Emile Zola story "For a Night of Love," Manifesto is set in an unspecified area of Central Europe in 1920.

The drowsy village of Wald-heim is about to host a visit from the king, and two sets of characters have different plans for the monarch. Security and assassins Alfred Molina (Joe Orton's lover in Prick Up Your Ears) plays security chief Avanti, who arrives with a group of comically inept policemen to prepare for the ruler. Simon Callow (A Room With a View) is the eager-to-please local police chief who assists Avanti. The mysterious beauty Svetlana (Camilla Soeberg), a Wald-heim native who has been away for a few years, returns to the town as part of a revolutionary plot to assassinate the king. Among her collaborators are a baker and the schoolteacher Rudi (Svetozar Cvet-kovlc).

The assassination scheme never amounts to much. Rudi has just been placed in the Bergman Sanatorium, where he is successfully brainwashed. Svetlana is too preoccupied with a series of steamy sexual encounters most of them with an insatiable servant (Rade Serbedzija) to be an effective revolutionary. Avanti is also too busy acting on his hormones to keep his mind on work. JUNE 23-25 From HBO, MTV, Showtime, 'Johnalhan Winters Friends' Letterman JEFF ALTAIAN JUNE 27-JULY 2 Fom Showtime, ASE.n Tonight Show, i his HBO Special 'One Night Stand' BLAKE CLARK tr! JL What does it add up to? The movie is beautifully filmed, and a couple of the performances are reasonably coherent.

Eric Stoltz is agreeable in a sketchy role as the postmaster, and Lindsay Duncan is very funny as a giddy teacher who turns into a raving revolutionary by the story's end. There are some amusing distractions, most involving the voyeurism of the local schoolchildren. In one scene they stumble upon a photographer and his model, who have rigged up a contraption for having sex in a tree. Later, three of the kids follow Avanti and an ice cream girl into a cave and watch as he bribes his way into her sexual favors. "It's illegal," one boy blithely observes.

"It's immoral," the other adds. "No, he paid fair and square," concludes the little girl with them. I'm not sure what, if anything, all this is supposed to add up to. Are we to conclude that sex is more fun than revolution, or that the two don't mix? If Makavejev has points to make, he makes them so obliquely they never quite register. Manifesto is the final selection in the Sarasota Film Society's Focus On Film series for this season.

The series is tentatively scheduled to resume at the end of the iJilllKrHi JULY 11-16 From 'Police Academy 1-5" MICHAEL WINSLOW GHwSTBUSTERS II SHOWTIMES: Tues. thru Sun. 8:30 pm Fri.S Sat Late Show 10:45 PM DOORS OPEN 7:30 PREFERRED SEATING DINNER PACKAGES AVAILABLE Tickets available at all Ticketmaster locations or at the Comedy Comer. To charge by phone (407) 839-3900. Reservation and information.

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