Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...BEST SCENES in It's My Turn simmer quietly with tension, brilliantly capturing the awkwardness that pervades ordinary encounters. This basically banal film speaks most eloquently when it says nothing. Its characters are often only vaguely aware of each other's existence. Just about every conversation is a failed opportunity. Even when lovers dance, their steps aren't graceful...
...fine portrayal of awkwardness that is the film's major virtue is also its downfall. In trying to topple the conventional stereotype of the career woman as a coldly efficient bitch, the film goes too far. It's My Turn tries to prove that a woman mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago can be femininely vulnerable; it ends up portraying her as a klutz...
EXCEPTING the very brief opening scene we never see Gundzinger do what she does best: teach math. While we are told repeatedly she is a career woman, we see little evidence of commitment or dedication. Throughout the film, her chief mathematical concern is that a particularly exceptional male student will solve a difficult problem before she does. One wonders how a woman so personally and professionally insecure could have managed to survive the tenure system at any major American university...
...committee has received $150 in pledges. Other activities surrounding the fast include a film to be shown on Thursday night and a speech by Ahmed Farah, an Oxfam field worker from Somalia. A discussion on the plight of East Africa in the Kennedy School Forum is slated for that week...
...Zany. Woody Allen's final statement, in which Woody completes his last two years at N.Y.U. and settles down as a C.P.A. in Bensonhurst. "Perhaps the most important film of this or any year" -Psychology Today...