Word: skolimowski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SCIENCE CENTER, Five Evenings with Jean-Pierre Leaud: The 400 Blows, Oct. 9; The Departure (Skolimowski), Oct. 10; Masculine/Feminine, Oct. 11; La Concentration (P. Garrel, U.S. Premier), Oct. 12; Bed and Board, Oct. 13, all at 7:30, $2.50 each night...
Mouchette Harvard Epworth Church. 7, April 13, $1. Machorka - Muff With Not Reconcile, The Bridegroom and The Comedienne and The Pimp. 7, April 16. Free, Une Femme Douce by Robert Bresson. 7, April 20. Tauw by Ousmane Sembene with Walkover by Jerzy Skolimowski. 7, April...
Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...
...Skolimowski fills his backgrounds with imagery (a painter covering a wall in red, a man in the swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
...there is also about Deep End, as in Skolimowski's other work, a kind of viciousness directed toward his characters that prevents his films from being fully successful. Skolimowski is interested in effects, not causes. Mike's mania and Susan's sadism are largely unmotivated, so that as characters they are little more than puppets in a savage Punch and Judy. The film's last scene, which is a frightening realization of one of Mike's most deranged dreams, should properly be shocking and pitiful. But it is singularly unsuccessful, despite the talents of John...