Stanley Kauffmann

“…. Sarandon is the only one in the cast worth mention: she has a combination of 19th-century beauty and contemporary tacit humor and feeling that makes me hope she’ll get a good script some day. But she and all the others her are only capital-C Characters, collections of characteristics and oddities, presumably colorful, unrelated to life as we know it or want to know it.

“The film was directed by the Frenchman Louis Malle, fresh form the disaster of Pretty Baby [three years prior!], in which Sarandon was also wasted….”

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, April 18, 1981