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A LIJNLEL 1YX,.iMARCH I9, 1966
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fCaressed': Tedious Newsreel
About Disagreeable Characters
FILMS
Cold Realism, Cruelty
Characterize 'The Spy'
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By PETER BICKELMANN
Jst .now the Campus Theater
is marking time between showings
of -"The Loved One" and "Darling"
-rand surely some transition is
needed between two films, despite
their titles, so dissimilar. Still, we
might have been offered something
better than "Caressed;" a Film
Festival Award Winning Drama
s .in Vancouver by Laurence
Kent, who also. bears full respon-
sib ]ity for the filmscript. Fifty
years ago, this sort of treatment
of adolescent sex would have
shocked and repelled; t o d a y
(whether or not this may be an
absolute gain for us) we have be-
come inured: films like "Caressed"
first amuse, then very soonx bore
us.
Though ,we have learned to' ex-
pect 'most anything from the
Canadian National Film Board;
this film is not in any way experi-
mental; 'andy et, without any
hand-held camera gimmicks, the
director.still.manages, to achieve
the tedious effect of making an,
hour-and-a-h alf newsreel about
people . who are not a bit news-
worthy. One.. soon gets tired of
seeing a few high school hoods
loitering on street corners in
downtown Vancouver, leering at a
procession of tarts and office girls.
It may be taking "Caressed" too
seriously to claim that it even
raises a basic question about
movies today in general, but the
film, is like many others today in
attempting to deal with insipid, or
even disagreeable characters, the
sort you try .to avoid -at parties.
That it is possible to mike a 'good
movie about such a type is shown
by; for instance, "Cleo 'From 5 to
7;" but many directors, including
Mr. Kent, have not yet learned
that, when the central character;
is uninteresting, the other ele-
ments of the picture - photog-
raphy, script, acting, etc.-must be
extra-ordinarily effective to sus-
tain our interest.
Instead, "Caressed" suffers from
photography so stolid it might
have come from television; a script
that trades on all the conventions
of teenage sex--furtive attempts
to pass beyond the leering stage-
and a script which is even triter
than its subject; and acting that's
so painfully natural that it's like;
Candid Camera gone arty, or per-
haps -;an outgrowth of detergent
testimonials. A theme like that. of
"Caressed" could be brought off if
it were handled either humorously,
at the expense of the characters,
or seriously, with all the earnest-
ness with which these kids aggra-
vate their own problems. "Cares-
sed" fails-. to sustain either mood,
nor does it cover its weaknesses
with. the-.polish- of inventive pho-
tography, imaginative direction
and so .on, which, at their best,
are much more than mere orana-
ments- to a good film.
Makeweights on this program
are "Un chien Andalou," listed on
the Campus' time schedule as
'.Andalusia," 'as if a pr'ogram=with-.
out a travelogue would be literally
unthinkable; and what we might
.facetigps'ly call a short subject,
"Icarus," written by Ray Brad-
bury. The 'former, made by Dali
and Bunnel, is so delightfully zany
that any further comment would
be pedantic;, of the latter, the less
said, the better-this time because
it is so meretricious., All in all, this
program won't do, especially when
films like "King and .Country"
and "Shakespeare-Wala" are long
overdue in, Ann Arbor.
By ROBERT MOORE
T h e predominantly favorable
big-city reviews have already said
it well enough: "The Spy Who
Came in from the Cold" is an
arresting,-engrossing look into a
world you never knew existed.
There is little James Bond glamor
or UN.C.L.E. action in "The Spy,"
only a jaded story of an ostensibly
glamorous game played without
rules, for high stakes, with preci-
sion, violence a n d expedient
cruelty.,
John Le Carr6's book was a
best-seller because of this realism;
the film will probably be a finan-
cial success because ,Producer-Di-
rector Martin Ritt used his
cameras and his cast to catch the
same mood as the book.
On black-and-white film, Ritt
captures the book's gloomy, sun-
less mood, with misty European
days, rainy nights, bland interiors
and dramatic shadows. A wave
breaking on a Holland beach un-
derscores one important scene; 'a
dark, airless library emphasizes
the emptiness of ,another.,
It is the characterization, and
particulary the acting of Richard
Burton, that makes the film, suc-
cessful. Burton plays Alec Leamas,
the English spy-"intelligence op-
erator"-who is ordered to accept
dismissal from the service and be-
come a bum so he can defect to
East Berlin. It is part of a plan
to weave one strand of a rope be-
ing prepared by London Intelli-
gence to hang Mundt, an East
German spy. But Leamas has been
told only half the story, and finds
out the rest only when the noose
is taut around his own neck be-
cause of the murderous treachery
of his own service.
Leamas is perfect for the plot:
he is bitter after his own failures
in West Berlin and lacerated in-
ternally by the inhuman amoral-
ity of his profession. Burton plays
Leamas masterfully, with an in-
articulate, tormented loneliness.
He takes a lover, but his loving
of her is reluctant and painful, for
all the "women's emotions"-love,
compassion-are merely weakness-
es he has been trained to ignore
and exploit. Yet in the sad, empty
ending, Leamas gives the only
thing a spy can give of himself for
love: his life.
Naturally the film has weak-
nesses. The plot is as complex as
European politics; the scriptwrit-
ers were able to pare the book
down to four main characters, but
still there are questions left in the
viewers' minds. Clare Bloom, as
Leamas' lover, is perhaps too
pretty, and Oskar Werner, as
Mundt, too chilling.
As a whole, the movie is good,
probably great. Of the succession
of seven spy movies to infiltrate
Ann Arbor this year, "The Spy",
is one that shouldn't be missed, at
the least for its essential contrast
with the others, at the best be-
cause it is a well-written and well-
acted film with a unique mood
and thesis.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
4:15 p.m.-The Department of
Psychology will present Dr. Jacques
Lacan of the Sorbonne in Paris
during a colloquium on "Psycho-
analysis and Language," held in
Aud. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
2:15 p.m. - John A. Stark-
weather will hold a seminar on
"Computer-Assisted Interviewing
and Testing" at 1057 MHRI.
7 and 9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor
Film Festival will be held in the
Architecture Aud.
8:00 p.m.-The Travel Club will
sponsor the film "Return to Erin"
in Aud. A.
8:30 p.m.-The School of Music
will present a String Orchestra
Concert with John Farrer con-
ducting in the Recital Hall, School
of Music.
8:30 p.m.-The student string
orchestra, conducted by John Far-
rer, a student in the School of
Music, will present a concert in
the music school Recital Hall. Fea-
tured will be a premiere work,
"Three Pieces for Strings," by Jer-
ry Dilik, a member of the Michi-
gan Band.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
4:15 p.m.-The Psychology De-
Ladies' Day Wed. 50c till 6 P.M.
ITb A DOG-GOiNE
DAFFY DISA .R!
partment will present Dr. Leonard in Aud. A.
Berkowitz of the Univertisy of SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Wisconsin in a colloquium on 7 and 9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor
"Some Experiments on Automa- Film Festival will be held in the 0
tism and Intent in Human Ag- Architecture Aud.
gression" in Aud. B.- ---
7 and 9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor
Film Festival will be held in the
Architecture Aud.
10:00 p.m.-The State Cham-
pionship Debates will be held at
Rackham Lecture Hall.
SATURDAY. MARCH 12
7 and 9 p.m.-The Ann Arbor
Film Festival will be held in the
Architecture Aud.
7 and 9 p.m.-Cinema II will
present the film "David and Lisa"
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.Day. Cale mn~ar
Management Development Seminar-
"Basics of Supervision": Rackham
Bldg., 8:30 a.m;1
:Office of Religious Affairs Book Dis-
ussion-=George Abbot- White, "Saint
Francis" by Nikes Kazantzakis: 2417
Mason Hall, 12 m.
Management Development Seminar-
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Dept., of . Architecture Lecture--Ta-
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Symposium on Japanese Kabuki: Lee-
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Vriiversi-t "'the' Aetingand Produition
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School 'of Music 1faculty Recital: -
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Dept. of Classical Studies Lecture:
Prof. Clark :Hopkins,- "The U. of' M.
Exccvattons at'-Appolinia, 1965," Thurs.,
March X0, 4 10 p.m., Aud. B, Angell
H411.
Doctoral Examination for Raymond
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.Fulbright-Hays Lectureships are still.
available for 1966-67. The list may be
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Office, Room 110 Rackham Bldg. The
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announcements of Fulbright -'Hays
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Lecture: Wed., March 9, 4:15 p.m.,
Aud. C. The Dept. of Psychology, joint
with Linguistics and Anthropology, will
present Dr. Jaques Lacan of the Sor-
bonne, Paris, speaking on "Psycho-
analysis and Language."
Engineering Freshmen: Important op-
portunity. .to discuss your questions
about Engineering, Thurs., March 10, 4
p.m., Run. 311'W. Engrg.
Timmer Foundation Scholarship:
University of Michigan students' who
are juniors, seniors,. or graduates are
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We'ekly meeting'on 'March 9, at- 7 p.m.,
3rd fl. conf. room, SAB.
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French Club, Le Baratin, Jeudi, 3-
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Cinema II, "David & Lisa, March 12
& 13, 7 & 9 p.m., Aud. A.
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p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe.
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8 p.m., 3545 SAB. All welcome.
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April 6
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