Word: russel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beauty and energy of the novel flow between the lines, around the characters. Ken Russel's direction provides wit and a pictorial opulence that belie the film's lean budget. But Women in Love oscillates too frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love...