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...least two instances the impulse to innovation results in crucial missteps. The first is in the casting. Flouting the traditional portrayal of Macbeth and his Lady as middle-aged figures, Polanski and Tynan chose Jon Finch, 29, and Francesca Annis, 26--both attractive, young and vital--for the leading roles. Their youth, if not unprecedented, is at least unfortunate. Tynan's argument has been that youth underscores the connection between murder and sexuality. But as Mary McCarthy pointed out in an essay several years ago, Macbeth's distinctive personal quality is analogous to the modern, middle-class, literal-minded, church...
Francesca Annis makes an interestingly brittle Lady Macbeth, but Jon Finch's Macbeth seems to be consumed by tuberculosis. In the climactic battle with Duncan, Finch looks as if he was having some trouble hefting his broadsword. But the supporting cast (Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride) is fiery, and Polanski manages most of the violent confrontations with brio...
SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY. A low-key, painfully believable contemporary love story, intelligently written by Penelope Gilliatt and flawlessly acted by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson...
...Edward Finch Cox, living symbol of the dreams and aspirations of millions of decent young Americans. What divine justice that this young man, who refused to betray the values his forefathers cherished, should be rewarded with the hand of America's own princess, Tricia Nixon...
...film's actors pleased and impressed its author as complementary to her characters. She imagined Daniel, the middle-aged Jewish doctor, exactly as Peter Finch plays him. Of Glenda Jackson, in the part of Alex, the woman divorcee, Gilliatt says: "Glenda is a brilliant actress with much in common with Alex intellectually, but not much temperamentally. She's got that great horsepower as an actress." Murray Head, who plays the young sculptor whom both Daniel and Alex love, manages to catch, in the sweet vacancy of his expression on screen, the "ariel quality of some free agent...