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...moments of pain, a man may laugh, and in a desperate situation, he may take refuge from his grief in humor. In British Playwright Peter Nichols' comedy, Albert Finney and Zena Walker bounce from sadness to clowning and back again as the parents of a child described as a "wegetable...
CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to, in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
...directorial debut, Finney, who also plays the title role, has taken on a stupefyingly familiar theme: the writer who has sold out to Mammon. Wretched in his wealth, Charlie stumbles through life drunk, debauched and dull, until he decides to go home again to revisit his ex-wife and child in the North Country, where he was born. With him is a migratory bird (Liza Minnelli) who has journeyed from America to be his secretary. Their trip rapidly becomes a descent into the hell of present-day materialistic England. Superhighways stretch on into meaningless dark. High-rise buildings hover like...
...Director Finney sets the correct tone for his fable of reality once removed. But charging the atmosphere with a Pinteresque amalgam of the incongruous and the comic is not enough. The film rests on a script by Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) that settles for cringingly arch character names (Smokey Pickles, Mr. Noseworthy) and a naive blend of symbolism and social critiscism. What is worse, Charlie's contempt for the traps and trappings of wealth cannot hide an underlying self-pity, accentuated by Actor Finney's eyes-closed, O-God-I'm-so-weary...