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...Alec Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat...
WEDNESDAY: Theater in America. A repeat of Genevieve Bujold and Stacy Keach's performances in Jean Anouilh's "Antigone." CH.2. 8:30 p.m. Color. 90 min. Ciao...
Anne of the Thousand Days--A boring re-enactment of the Ann Boleyn-Henry VIII conflict that's inaccurate to boot. Genevieve Bujold's Anne, however, is lovely, and almost makes the film worth seeing. With Loves of Isadora, a mess, but a showcase for Vanessa Redgrave's great talent. ORSON WELLES CINEMA, Call...
Fortunately for the film, the girl is played by his wife, Geneviève Bujold. Martha Hayes is a young girl from rural Quebec who becomes a companion and governess to the eleven-year-old son of a lonely, cultured Montreal widow (Monique Leyrac). She divides her attentions between young Russ (Bill Mitchell) and singing in the choir of the nearby Anglican church. Otherwise her thoughts are confined to romantic musings about herself and her relationship with God. They are, that is, until she discovers the Augustinian monk (Donald Sutherland) who temporarily takes over as choir director...
...Actress Bujold is incontestably a beguiling martyr, alternatingly childlike and womanly. But the force of her radiance is blunted by the conventionality of her role. Realizing that their love is an affront to man and God, Martha immolates herself. This is intended to be her act of the heart. Instead, it is simply the awkward denouement of Almond's chaotic vision. Mark Goodman