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Over the years, the shy, slow-speaking Keillor, who has written all the scripts, has peopled Lake Wobegon with enough walk-on eccentrics to fill an English garden party. Father Emil, the priest at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church, for instance, who has not paid much attention to Vatican II, figuring there is only one Vatican and that is enough for him. And Jack, who runs Jack's Head Stop Center, which teaches intellectuals things like bowling. There is also the fellow who runs the Fearmonger Shop, which caters to paranoids of all persuasions. The shop offers...
...PRIEST OF LOVE is undoubtedly the longest two-hour movie ever made. Billed as razzle-'em, dazzle-'em intimate portrait of D.H.Lawrence (lan McKellen) and his German wife. Freida (Janet Suzman), the movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies...
What survives in this aberration of a film is the background. Shot on location in New Mexico, Mexico, London, and Italy, Priest of Love is a visual Beadeker. Miles has clearly made an carnest effort at accurate visual realism. It is a great pity he could not do the same for the animate elements of Priest of Love...
...days. It seems that something funny is going on in the Republic of Tecan, currently a safe haven for U.S. interests. "Our ambassador is a Birchite moron," Nolan reports. "The cops lock you up for reading Voltaire." What really troubles Nolan is the behavior of a Roman Catholic priest and nun, both Americans, who are defying their superiors by refusing to close down a small mission and clinic on the Caribbean coast. Surely Holliwell can find an excuse to drop in on Tecan and see what these people think they are doing? Holliwell replies that he cannot...
...read it with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal of the frailty of human passions when pitted against Destiny. The central tale of a priest's life-long affair with an indomitable, vibrant young girl who embodied the very essence of the Outback may have seemed a little far-fetched, but it worked. The book was a blockbuster...