Nominated for Best Picture by an Academy that never heard of Georges Melies and needed to get hip fast, the androgynous boy displays the acting ability of a still photograph, the girl looks like Ingrid Bergman, and the picture has the pace of a snail with lead poisoning. How do they spend money like this and get no human feeling at all? Get the bad taste out of your mouth with THE MAGIC BOX, CINEMA PARADISO, hell, even MATINEE. But stay away from poseurs who think blue is artistic.