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...Daniel Hirsh is a homosexual and a Jew, a loner by birth, design and inclination. He accepts the position he holds in British life (that of a well-to-do bourgeois with private passions locked firmly in the closet), while rejecting both the gay life or the commitments an observant Judaism would demand. What he loves are culture, (mostly refined) pleasure, and a bisexual named Bob Elkin...
...kinetic sculptor. Bob Elkin is an uncomplicated boy who brings unfettered pleasure to both Greville and Hirsh, and becomes increasingly important to them. He is a free agent in society and character, and he acts like God's gift to lonely people. It is, indeed, his very irresponsibility--his sensitivity only to small things, to children and animals--which makes him so attractive to the two more interesting adults...
...basic ones, and the anomie that helps frustrate their personal gropings is the same which permeates all industrial society. If those of us who have the simple concept of revolution but lack the stuff to make it work would be receptive to the civility and humanity of Greville and Hirsh, the world would be improved immeasurably...
...homosexuality and Jewish ethnicity without smirking at their subjects. Some affectation is still present: a wayward bedside TV set, which brings back bad memories of Sylvia Miles'; a sinuous pan up Elkin's body as seen by Alex through a shower curtain; postured bit-playing by effete types at Hirsh's house. For the most part, however, Schlesinger has not overpowered his script, but served it. With the aid of Peter Finch (Daniel), Glenda Jackson (Alex), and despite the too-callow Murray Head's Bob; with Mozart arias on the soundtrack which give musical dimension to the trio's cultural...
...example, she orders Bob about in a voice filled with self-abnegation, or when she stands depleted before her "rival"-she surpasses any previous part. As for Peter Finch, this versatile and deeply intelligent performer has never had so fine an hour and a half. In his portrayal, Hirsh betrays no gesture of queerness or bathos. He is merely a man whose affliction is not homosexuality but the tradition that abhors...