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Title: Tres belle? Quel bagatelle!
Review: This is a fairly mediocre piece of work...Programmatic [70's style feminist] work, executed in the style of a Radley Metzger film. However, as it is short, the programmatic mediocrity doesn't last long. Mercifully.Of course Oates is (or, was) a much finer writer (& critic--despite her ridiculous misreading of D. H. Lawrence's poetry!) than this work would indicate. It is always disappointing to see such tripe passed off a serious art, when it is in fact brought about by a blatant attempt to cater to a dominant ideology...Like so much Soviet art in the Thirties & Forties, etc.That there are absolutely no characters to empathize with in this muddled story is no argument in its favor either.One can easily find better employment of several hours than plodding through this contrived dreck which reads like the panic attack-induced phantasies of an anxious parent with a teenager preparing to leave home the first time for college.
