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Futz! is less likely to stir the senses than raise the gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...
...MANTLE. This Danish-Swedish film is a beautiful, occasionally bloody saga of the conflict of love and honor in medieval Iceland...
...MANTLE. This Danish-Swedish film is a beautiful, occasionally bloody saga of the conflict of love and honor in medieval Iceland...
...saga, by dictionary definition, is not just a long story about families; it is specifically a long story about medieval Icelandic families. The Red Mantle is a saga-very medieval, very Icelandic (it was filmed there), and in its way, very beautiful...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Lonely Dory-men-Portugal's Men of the Sea." A saga of the 3,250-mile journey to the Davis Straits of Greenland that Portuguese fishermen have made annually for 500 years...