With a completely deadpan expression, Alexis alternately observes the idiocies around him and participates in them. He withdraws his money from the bank, packs one shirt in a suitcase, and climbs in to his car with the intention of committing suicide when his money runs out.Unfortunately he has too many whimsical adventures ever to carry out his plan. Alexis, one is asked to believe, feels so much grief he expresses none at all. Tacchella were a shipbuilder, you might expect him to put sails on a submarine.'Voyage to Grand Tartarie,' a title that is supposed to suggest a trip through hell, is set in a landscape that is meant to be a surreal projection of a France in the grip of social and political revolution, environmental pollution and emotional alienation.The journey is undertaken by Alexis (Jean-Luc Bideau) after his pretty young wife is arbitrarily shot down by a maniac in a cowboy suit as she comes out of a supermarket. Tacchella has described 'Grand Tartarie'-a film that is a 'farcical trip through our society' as well a 'satire of films which make fun of contemporary society.' If Mr. Griffith and Quad Cinemas, a social satire made with a heavy hand and small mind.Only someone dangerously sure of his own talents would think he could make-as Mr.

Tacchella displays in 'Voyage to Grand Tartarie,' which opened yesterday at the D. 'VOYAGE TO GRAND Tartarie' is brought to us by Jean-Charles Tacchella, the director who hadn't yet brought to us 'Cousin, Cousine' when he made 'Grand Tartarie,' his first feature, a comedy of such consistent mirthlessness and accidental cruelty you might believe them to be his method.Although I'm an admirer of 'Cousin, Cousine,' which became one of the most successful foreign-language movies we've had in years, I can see some associations between its rather casual treatment of other people's feelings and the total self-absorption that Mr.

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