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WEEKLY CALENDAR

CINEMA

CAMBRIDGE

BRATTLE: Thru Saturday: THE REST IS SILENCE, a mediocre attempt to re-create Hamlet in modern West Germany. Starts Sunday. Two Japanese films, THE MISTRESS (Dec. 17-19) and UTAMARO (Dec. 20-23).

BOSTON

GARY: WEST SIDE STORY continues to be the best in town these days. All the bittersweet flavor of the Broadway play has been faithfully preserved. Leonard Bernstein's superb score and Jerome Robbins' choreography more than make up for occasional bad acting in this version of Romeo and Juilet in gangland.

KENMORE: Brigitte Bardot, the current titleholder, plays slut (again) in THE TRUTH, but under Henri Georges Cluzot's direction, she turns in an acceptable reasonably convincing performance. This film should not be written off as just another Bardot bottom twitcher.

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