Reviews of AFI Festival Screenings : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘The Man Who Envied Women’
U.S.A., 1987, 125 minutes, 8 p.m. Warner Building, AFI, 2021 N. Western Ave., Hollywood
For people who are into deconstruction in a big way. Yvonne Rainer’s video portrait of divided male/female consciousness--an academic structuralist and his embittered ex-wife--is a compendium of fascinatingly apt contemporary jargon and political attitudes. But Rainer’s mannered style and Jackie Raynal’s awkward performance sabotage the text.
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