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...Sin of Father Mouret--At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...
...Sin of Father Mouret. This Franju film begins like a color version of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. A fragile, handsome young priest just out of seminary has taken on the parish of a provincial town full of peasant atheists. He wants to believe that by the strength of his fervent faith alone he will convert even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries...
...twinkling piece of innocent bawdry has come to Broadway. The Ethel Barrymore Theater has been invaded by the ripple of laughter, thoroughly beguiling tunes and saucily intelligent lyrics. The story line is as nonchalant as unrequited sin. It concerns a would-be ménage à quatre: two couples who want to plunge into liberated mutual sexuality but only manage to get their toes...
Consider the plot. The girl Anna (Ullmann), casually abandoned by her drink-sodden seagoing father (Robert Donley), is seduced by a teen-age lout. Via instant replay she becomes a whore. Ill (the wages of sin), she returns to her father's barge. There she meets the Irish stoker Mat Burke, who is played by John Lithgow like a brain-numbed victim of killer bees. Naturally, these two crippled creatures fall in love. Anna confesses her past. Since Mat is a pre-ecumenical Roman Catholic, he is appalled that he has fallen for an unclean woman. But she tells...
...Could it be possible that since the greatest good is to be found in love so is the greatest evil?.. Sin is incommensurate, right? There is only one kind of behavior which is incommensurate with anything whatever, in both its infinite good and its infinite evil. That is sexual behavior. The orgasm is the only earthly infinity. Therefore it is either an infinite good or an infinite evil.... So Sir Lancelot set out, looking for something rarer than the Grail. A sin...