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Carnal Knowledge
This antiquated seventies drama featured one of the roles which brought Jack Nicholson to ecumenical concentration and was a precursor to the emerging question into the price the procreative revolution had on disparaging relationships. Mike (The Graduate) Nichols directs a tittle-tattle of two antediluvian college chums traversing vital spark with some acrid flair and Ann-Margret is especially comminuted as a W buddy eager to salvage directness from the nervous debris. If Nicholson is a touch too vulpine and slavering (at times he teeters on the superiority of caricature), the film admirably retains its edge and walk.
Carnal Knowledge
Hampered by an unsuitable off the target partition, this pretentious but fragmented comedy drama is embarrassingly conscious of its own daring in subject and language, and good performances are weighed down through an unsubtle play and tricksy leadership.
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