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The press have reported it, but not with the neurotic intensity you might expect.
The heroes of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985) have their jerky sides (emotionally squeamish viewers tend to find them repellent), but they also have compensatory gifts--chiefly Brooks' urgent babble, in which pleas are made and then restated and then turned inside out in a way that brilliantly (and hilariously) distills neurotic thought processes.
The movie uses her open Asian face to make the French faces seem neurotic and devious: Hers is like a clear pool next to their rather pinched visages.
Its laughs are as crude as the chuckles of "little boys sniggering over National Geographic " (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Others say its digs at ivory-tower credulousness and Dreyfuss' turn as a neurotic professor make it "too funny to ignore" (David Denby, New York ). (The trailer is available here.)
Flockhart, the brittle underweight neurotic, yet still somehow appealing, in a tense yet vulnerable way