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Jun 21, 2004 12:00 a.m. - Yahoo! News - Entertainment - Reviews
Variety - Charlotte Rampling has supped at some of the modern-day cinema's more depraved tables of sexuality, but her admirers likely won't be the only ones to find the erotic cunning of "The False Servant" a little tame. Would the Marivaux revival, in a new version by Martin Crimp, deliver more of a frisson if it generated any genuinely erotic heat --- if it weren't as chilly and reined-in as the schemers it's about? Perhaps. However you look at it, Jonathan Kent's return to the National Theater's Cottesloe for the first time since Corneille's "Le Cid" a decade ago is all glistening surfaces bereft of soul: It seduces the eye (as Paul Brown's designs nearly always do) while leaving the heart untouched.
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