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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Because of the film's nature, criticism of A Married Couple cannot help sounding like psychoanalysis. To begin with, any couple that allows their marriage to be filmed and exposed in such a way is already approaching crisis. "I personally feel that it should be dealt with as drama," says King, "as a piece of fiction." But abstracting the situation in this manner removes not only some of its sting but much of its validity. It will be an almost irresistible temptation for audiences to align themselves with either husband or wife. Some will call Antoinette a selfish, shrill...
Suburban Modern. The man and woman are the main figures-one is tempted to say antagonists-of a brutally frank documentary called A Married Couple. Made by Allan King, who was also responsible for the remarkable Warrendale, the film is an unblinking dissection of a modern family. Distilling some 70 hours of film into a crucial 97 minutes, King has fashioned a sad and sometimes horrifying document in which viewers can pay uneasy witness to the approaching annihilation of a human relationship...
...cushy suburban-modern house with his wife Antoinette, their infant son Bogart and the family dog, Merton. A cinematographer and a soundman, under King's direction, spent ten weeks in the Edwards' home, arriving before breakfast and not leaving until everyone had gone to bed. They filmed everything: meals and holidays, affection and indifference, disagreements and brawls. The result is a perfect model of documentary film making...
GEORGY is the first musical I've ever seen which aspires to be a footnote. While the creators of this show, currently trying out in Boston on its way to Broadway, must think of their work as a musicalized adaptation of their source (the film Georgy Girl ), they didn't fool me for a second. Georgy is not so much a reincarnation of its inspiration as an addendum...
From beginning to end, this musical assumes the audience has not only seen the Alan Bates-Lynn Redgrave film of several years back, but has never forgotten a word of it. It is on the basis of this kind of assumption. I think, that Tom Mankiewiez, the author of the show's book, has felt it unnecessary to tell us anything about the show's principal characters: Georgy, the ugly duckling with the big heart; Meredith, the good-looking and cynical slut-next-door: and Jos, the amiable guy who toys with each of them...