Word: lovelessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after a loveless weekend affair, chooses the less convenient road. Faced with the insinuating soft sell of an abortionist, she decides to have her baby and go it alone...
...hammock during a mental crackup. Shannon and Hannah, the spinster, dominate the play, and break through to each other as they struggle with fetters of body and spirit. He tells her how he was locked out of his church for "fornication and heresy-in the same week." His revenge: loveless lecheries with teen-age girls, one of whom (Lane Bradbury) claws at his door with embarrassing anguish. Hannah tells him of pathetic fingertip brushes with love. Touched by their mutual need, Shannon asks if they might not make a go of life together. It is Hannah's kindness...
...domineering mother. The classical relationship--outer docility, inner rebelliousness, and subconscious hatred--takes shape in a series of fragmentary flashbacks which also illuminate Josephine's lonely life as an Oxford undergraduate. There are suggestions of an Electra complex and clear indications of sexual naivete and repression. Friendless and loveless, so far Josephine might be only a potential romantic heroine or an interesting, if almost too typical, psychoanalytic case study...
Time Being is that the writer of the script knows her people and their backyards, as well as they know the patches on their clothes. And when Paul Bembroy discovers a new, or rediscovers an old, comet, his joyless and loveless life seems to have been justified...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...