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By Naomi & Herb *
Rappahannock News Writers
This week we re discussing some obscure, but weird and wonderful videos that we've enjoyed time and again. They include comedy, drama, and a subtitled French "romantic thriller. We love these unique Films for reasons we hope you'll glean in these reviews. From the oldest to the most recent:
• Harold & Maude: 1971, 91 minutes, rated PG, starring the inestimable Ruth Gordon, (now deceased, she was perhaps 65 when the film was made, but plays an 80 year old) and Bud Cort, as a rich, eccentric, and bored young man preoccupied with death because he finds no pleasure in life.
In this very offbeat, but wiy and amusing film, disenchanted young man meets enchanting, effervescent old laijy at one of the many stranger's funerals they both oft^n attend for amusement, and friendship/love follows. Harold's mother, a snooty society widow, has applied to a dating service and is trying to match her son with a "suitable" young woman.
Harold foils each effort with a fake, staged suicide. He immolates himself on a garden bench in front of the first girl. During the second date's introduction, Harold chops off his hand with an axe, and she runs screaming from the room. He also stages a hanging, drowning, cutting his own throat, shooting himself in the head, and ritual seppuku. His mother, thoroughly resigned to his dark shenanigans, totally ignores Harold's "suicides."
He purchases a hearse to drive and his mother, disgusted, has it towed away and
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