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...LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL Directed by George Roy Hill Screenplay by Loring Mandel
...RAZOR'S EDGE Directed by John Byrum Screenplay by John Byrum and Bill Murray
...rational explanation for the obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes of neurasthenic surrender and the will is strangled in brocade. If the screenplay by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne omits or hastily vulgarizes Proust's nuanced sensitivity to social gesture and psychological tremor, the film nevertheless suggests a legitimate response to this most daunting of literary material. Well and bravely acted, Swann in Love is a mesmerizing, even haunting experiment...
...will ever be tempted to employ terms like that to describe The Bostonians, for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it. There is a certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage...
...artistic response to Freud's theories has enabled film directors to have a field day with movies exploring the human psyche. Hitchcock flicks have carved a niche for themselves in cinematographic history and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde school of screenplay has enabled writers like Steven King to probe the inner regions of the mind...