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Rosemary's Baby--Dangerously misdirected by Roman Polanski, irritatingly acted by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, shoddily filmed in grainly bleached-out color, vehemently hated by your friendly Crimson reviewer, but far-and-away the most popular film of the year. See for yourself. At the ESQUIRE, Mass. Ave. on the Boston side of Harvard Square...
Last time out, Mia Farrow had Rosemary's Baby. In Secret Ceremony, she is Rosemary's baby, a diminutive monstrosity named Cenci whose wide, cornflower eyes open onto a hostile, deranged mind...
...character is a promising one, and perhaps one day Farrow can play it for what it's worth. For now, she is trapped in a glossy, twittering movie that poses as a psychological horror story. Leonora, an over-the-hill prostitute (Elizabeth Taylor), is accosted by Cencion a London bus. The girl invites her home-where Leonora discovers an eerily familiar face in a photograph. Cenci's dead mum was a ringer for the prostitute. And, vice versa, Cenci reminds the prostitute of her daughter, dead lo these seven years. The two settle down symbiotically in Cenci...
...terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the master, but brings none of his talent to the task. Nor is Losey much aided by his actors. Farrow continues to radiate a fragile elegance and a shrewd sense of character and timing. But she alone cannot make a movie...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Under the direction of Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow gives a shivering performance as the put-upon heroine, in the film version of Ira Levin's bestseller about devil worship and other naughtiness on Manhattan's West Side...