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Directed by JOHN BOORMAN Screenplay by JAMES DICKEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...film that John Boorman has fashioned from James Dickey's novel is a magnificent visual experience and an assault on the senses fully as brutal as the river trip. Boorman (Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific) has made the river and the woods characters in themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

Rarely, except in Robert Flaherty's documentaries, has nature been so truly or so tangibly rendered on the screen. Deliverance is splendidly photographed (by Vilmos Zsigmond) and edited (by Tom Priestley). Images sweep by the eye in great, violent cascades that transcend Dickey's prose renderings of the same terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...script by Boorman and Dickey (who does nicely in the role of a small town sheriff) strays occasionally on the side of overemphasis. But an unrelenting pulse of suspense propels the film over these obstacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Peckinpah's recent Straw Dogs - another, artistically less successful movie about a test - the director's prodigious skill cannot conceal a rather shabby and cynical intellectual construct. In Deliver ance, man must become one with na ture in order to survive. But for Boorman and Dickey, becoming one apparently means becoming bestial. Deliverance comes not through a knowledge of nature's most primitive and powerful forces but through a capitulation to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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