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6 Part VIFriday May 27 1983 ilos Ansietto Cimto STUDIOS TOWN MCA OPIN OLUT N01 sO cki am on Iv MOVIE REVIEW AN ELEGANT BUT MOODY 'INVITATION' "Robert Duvall is astonishing" would seem to have intended Not helping matters is Del Monte's unfortunate telegraphing of his plot Some of the people Ma let meets on the road seem as weird as he is There's Atmore Clement's Parisian matron who suddenly gives in to a whim to look up a lover of 15 years before There's Mario Adorf's distraught Turk who may or may not have killed his wife On a more normal note are a couple of Norwegian truckers on the make for a roadside waitress and a neglected old man Raymond Bussieres whose career dates to "A Nous la who hitches a ride to visit his wife's grave Bussieres who wards off loneliness by listening to the Jukebox in his offspring's restaurant has the film's virtually only light-hearted lines By KEVIN THOMAS Times Staff Writer TENDER As MERCIES WC BS-TV Al 7't- "Irares" Ii '1161-ri 4 0 koz) 1 AP0s4AY appears briefly in is an erstwhile stable boy who has become a flunkie to his passionately adored twin sister a tough-looking new-wavish rock star (Nina Scott an actual singer popular in France) Soon after the film starts Ma let embarks on a long journey across France a bass violin case strapped to the top of his car As he drives on flashbacks begin filling us in on his intensely incestuous relationship with his sister and we eventually learn the reason for his trip "Invitation au Voyage" brings to mind "The Collector" in its impossible love story and later on "Performance" in its role exchange But it lacks the characterization and therefore tragic dimensions of the first and the sheer bravura of the second We don't get to know Scott well enough to become caught up in her fate And in his sweet simple obsessiveness Ma let's character offers little with which we can you Just happen to be a twin obsessed with your sibling Thus by default the film becomes more morbid than Del Monte NOW SHOWING WOODLAND NUS ace Woodiond Hills Cinomo 703-1571 peter del Monte's "Invitation au Voyage" (Cineplex) is an elegant French fable of impossible love more morbid and predictable than involving Yet it is understandable why it received a special prize for artistic achievement at Cannes last year that singled out Bruno Nuytten's appropriately dark and moody camera work For "Invitation au Voyage" is a singularly beautiful and expressive film that shows Del Monte a San Francisco-born Italian quite capable of projecting his own dreamy world on film (aided in this instance by Gabriel Yared's splendidly evocative and varied score) If he has yet to learn how to draw us into it fully he has time: "Invitation au Voyage" which he adapted with Franco Ferrini from Jean Bany's novel "Mot et Ma Soete" is only his second theatrical feature It's the kind of film that offers more promise than fulfillment More beautiful than handsome Laurent Ma let who WESTWOOD UA Crowns Center 4754441 NAN 410 800 AN SAWA NOMA Mann MO 451-4377 MUM OMS CCC 9wmon Oaks Cinema 986-9660 COSTA VISA Edwards Sourly Cool Plaza 7145462711 IMMIX Pacific's Lakswood Canto 5319580 MANHATTAN MACS Mona 11640-1075 'INVITATION AU VOYAGE' A Triumph Films release of Franco-halo-German co-production: NU-Diffusion-UGC (Paris) Film Alfa (Rome) Anthea Film (Munich) Producer Claude Nedjar Director Peter del Monte Screenplay Del Monte Franco Ferrini: based on Jean Bany's novel "Moi et Ma Soeur" Camera Bruno Nuytten Music Gabriel Yared Sonp Nina Scott and the band Law Leu Nest Production designer Ghia lain Uhry Film editor Agnes Guillemot With Laurent Ms let Aurore Clement Mario Adorf Nina Scott Raymond Bussieres In French with English subtitles Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes MPAA-rated: (persons under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian) AMASON Logo 714772-6448 14311WP000 UA Eqvphom 467-6187 D8Py 210 6:30 6 10:20 PM MST NOILYWOM Dopes Coss 1571110 CALL OR CSICK THUM DIRICTOINS FOS SISOVITIMIS Win a 7-night Princess Cruise for two to Mexico! 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