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...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
Charlie Bubbles After his bravura performance in Joe Egg (TIME, Feb. 9), there can be no doubt that Albert Finney can act. After Charlie Bubbles, there will be none that he can direct. The question is whether he should, if this sort of movie is what he feels is worth doing...
...father, Bri (Albert Finney), has cauterized his pain by becoming a perpetual jester. He uses the child as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy through which to josh, mimic and needle his wife and the world. In a performance of sustained pyrotechnics, Finney does petrifyingly funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with...
...ROAD. Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flash backwards and forwards on a twelve-year marital fray-for-all neatly scripted by Frederic Raphael (Darling) and cleverly directed by Stanley Donen (Charade...
...ROAD. Audrey Hepburn is surprisingly good as a Virginia Woolf-cub, but Albert Finney is curiously unsympathetic as her husband in a union that keeps going on strike...