![]() ![]() ![]() Pool of high-gloss motion picture camp-fests. When Jacqueline Susann, the queen of crass, (and I wouldn't have it any other way) passed away in 1974, she left a sizable void in the supply Marie-France Pisier as Noelle Page (short a, as in Pajama) To look at, easy to ingest, and 100% lacking in anything remotely substantive, The Other Side of Midnight is the cinema equivalent of a sugar pill. Directed with a daring lack of distinction by Charles Jarrot ( Lost Horizon), this big-budget adaptation of the 1973 Sidney Sheldon bestseller is a comfort food movie requiring little in the way of attentiveness, and nothing more of your brain than that you leave it on the nightstandĪnd let the glistening images and warmed-over histrionics enshroud you like an electric blanket. It's all there, everything one looks for in a soap opera: sex, romance, betrayal, power plays, vengeance, retribution.the whole shebang. ![]() Thoroughly engrossing and strangely reassuring in its by-the-numbers adherence to type and staunch refusal to go anywhere near the unexpected. In execution, that even on first viewing it feels like a rerun. Potboiler of love, sex, and revenge so narratively antiquated, so routine and clichéd ![]() Sometimes it takes a thing like a 100-degree-fever to breakĭown one’s resistance enough to allow for the guilt-free enjoyment of gilt-edgedĪ film that, at a running time of over 2 ½ hours, is an over-embellished ![]()
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