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Canadian film has become a connoisseur's delight. But like its best actresses-Genevieve Bujold, Joanna Shimkus, Margot Kidder-it can no longer be contained at the border. If Shebib can make a polished sleeper for less than one-twentieth the cost of, say, Getting Straight, what could he do with $2,000,000? If there is any justice in the film world (or any astute Hollywood money), the answer to that question should be forthcoming soon...
...film-better reveals Lawrence's moral absolutism than The Virgin and the Gypsy. Between its narrow boundaries is sown the seed of the Lawrentian canon-the familial conventions, the social hypocrisies, the annealing force of sex. The time is the '20s and the maiden is Yvette (Joanna Shimkus), who steps backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit in the air. symbolized by soul...
...best of an exemplary cast, Joanna Shimkus abruptly leaves behind a parade of elongated walk-ons (The Lost Man, Boom!) to become an authentic actress. Almost any beautiful woman could perform the film's love scenes, but few could engage so well in the skirmishes. Yvette's monstrous maiden Aunt Cissie
...Walsh) is a frightening reminder of the hysterical women who were Freud's first patients. Against her, a lesser woman would be consumed, but Shimkus makes Yvette an individual of greater and more durable passion. She rides time like a ship; youth, philosophy, the century itself are the winds at her back. When she prevails, it is because of balance and conviction...
...disciple of nonviolence (Al Freeman Jr.), Jason seems cursed from the opening. When the robbery erupts into blood and death, it is only a formal ratification of doom. Jason's descent from provocateur to fugitive and his ultimate Tristan and Isolde death scene with a white chick (Joanna Shimkus) are even stagier and more predictable...