Word: dullea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West End Cinema-Keir Dullea in de Sade. Opposite the Hotel Madison at North Station...
...Keir Dullea) has just made a brave gesture of self-sufficiency by setting up in his own East Village apartment. The girl (Blythe Danner) lives in the adjoining flat. They meet and bedmate, only to have the boy's Mom arrive unexpectedly, as Moms expectably do in plays like this. Mom (Eileen Heckart) inspects the setup like a staff officer suddenly assigned to a colonial outpost full of weird natives and primitive sanitary facilities...
True to Mom's worst fears, the girl skitters off with another man before blind love's final victory. Cast as an aspiring actress, Blythe Danner puts on a studied display of spontaneity with much mannered fuss and fluster. With the lines Keir Dullea has been given, he would be better off mute...
...movie biography called de Sade is also painful. Keir Dullea appears as the troubled marquis, and his vulpine, immobile face helps him to range between anger ("Don't you ever say 'Enough' to me!") and pitiful pleading ("But if ... I changed?") with indifference. The orgies are only slightly more titillating than a Playboy centerfold, and a good deal less polished. According to this film, the marauis' most notable contribution to esoteric eroticism was spreading jam on women's nipples...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE, by Leonard Gershe, is a love story of a blind boy and the girl next door. Keir Dullea, Blythe Danner and Maureen O'Sullivan star. Falmouth, Mass...