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The Confession is the latest effort of the brilliant Greek director Costa-Gavras, who made Z. The new film is savage, methodical and painstakingly realistic; it is also static, relentless and thoroughly dispiriting. It closely documents the horror of a staged Stalinist purge trial, yet lacks the creative energy to...
A crucial problem is that the theme, though powerful, is dreadfully familiar. Based on the autobiographical account of Artur London, former Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Czechoslovakia, Confession follows, moment by agonized moment, the arrest, interrogation, trial and conviction of an old-line Communist. Gerard (Yves Montand) is a...
His devotion persists throughout the unremitting interrogation. "Better be wrong inside the party than right outside it" is the credo he clings to, recalling Rubashov in Darkness at Noon. But carefully, exhaustively, his interrogators ensnare him in a network of lies and half-truths. The process of psychic and physical...
Female Impersonator. Howe was unaware of Kate's confession when he reviewed Sexual Politics for Harper's, but he nevertheless sensed a sexual ambiguity in its author. Kate, he writes, "shows very little warmth toward women and very little awareness of their experience. There are times one feels...
Husbands can be at times an ugly film (witness a scene in the men's room of a bar with Gus and Archie heaving up two days' worth of booze) and even a cruel one. But it is impossible to keep from smiling at Archie's dealing...