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...falters before its destination. But never has an English-language film glistened with so many social nuances. In part, the credit is due to Director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy); he has also contributed a cluster of stylistic debits. The essential triumph of Sunday Bloody Sunday belongs to Scenarist Penelope Gilliatt, whose plot alone challenges the customary moral institutions...
Doubly Desirable. Obviously, such a condition cannot long endure. No problem is too great for the artist to run away from; Bob flees to America. The amours he left behind may have been miserable with him; without him they are desolate. From this uncompromising situation, Gilliatt has drawn blood. Her dialogue is literate but not precious, unbowdlerized but not prurient. Through her characters' recognizability they become memorable...
...after all the errata, the core of the fiction remains incorruptible. Gilliatt is always a mature artist; Schlesinger is often one. When they work in unison they emphasize the callowness of such tentative sexual probes as Carnal Knowledge or Husbarids. And they provide a binary challenge-to the viewer and the film maker. For at its frequent best, Sunday Bloody Sunday proves that no theme, no individual need be beyond the reach of cinema. The faults and excesses of this difficult, contradictory film cannot be glossed over or indulged. Nevertheless, Sunday Bloody Sunday must even now be considered...
Recalls Penelope Gilliatt (hard g as in grin): "He sensed something perilous in the air even then." The hair and skin are the same hue that used to transport Titian, and she has never married a Hungarian of any kind. But as for the "something perilous"-well, Conner's trepidations were founded...
...Suicide Academy is left as a palatial metaphor hardly explored and barely furnished. It is largely unpeopled, too, except for Wolf's assistant, a splendidly grotesque, wasp-tongued Negro named Gilliatt. Archly antiSemitic, he quotes upbeat Talmudic texts to needle Wolf, and continually accuses him of secretly sabotaging the academy's sacred neutrality in favor of life. Gilliatt reasons that the Jews invented resurrection and so are rotten with humanitarian sympathy. Gilliatt may be the best bit-part player of the literary year...