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...Goethe. "Romanticism a disease." By those very rigid standards, First Love is a sick film-admirably sick with love. It is also the robust debut of a film maker to be admired and watched. Just about every actor insists that "what I really want to do is direct." Maximilian Schell has not been content merely to yearn; he has made it happen...
Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, First Love is the deceptively elemental narrative of an adolescent smitten by his father's mistress. "It is a story unusually lit with affection and nature," says Schell. "I decided only one photographer could really do it-Sven Nykvist, the artist who does Bergman's films. When he agreed I knew the picture would happen, and that it would work." Schell's instinct has proved infallible. Nykvist has filled the film with indelible imagery. The sunlight is a featured player of humor and warmth. Interiors seem to exhale melancholy. Weightless...
Propelled Forward. The girl, Sinaida (Dominique Sanda), is an impoverished princess with a fatal blessing; unrelieved sensuality. She attracts not only the youth Alexander (John Moulder Brown) but a whole galaxy of worshipers, including Alexander's repressed father (Maximilian Schell) and Poet-Pretender Maidanov, played with self-mocking gusto by Playwright John Osborne...
...second prize went to Eric Lenk, a Harvard junior, for his "Three Songs (For Mary)." The third prize, $10, was awarded to Betsy Schell, who teaches English at LaSalle Junior College, for her poem "Ad ripa...
...State Senator Manfred Ohrenstein found Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott too preoccupied with legislative problems to heed the attorneys' brief that the President had gone beyond the law in sending troops into Cambodia. "I'm not sure the message got through," Ohrenstein said. Nor was Attorney Orville Schell certain that he managed to reach Attorney General Mitchell during a meeting with the President's chief domestic adviser. Said Schell: "We were polite, we were cool, but we certainly didn't make any visible impression...