Word: suzman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Lawrences travel from New Mexico to Mexico. Where Lawrence is diagnosed tubercular, and return to wander through Europe in search of a cure. Miles uses Lawrence's ambiguous sexual orientation as a vehicle for suspense. It is intensely depressing to watch lan McKellen and Janey Suzman frolic in bed with all the emotion and ingenuousness of a whoreand her john. It is even more discouraging to see McKellen swimmaked on his back in an English lake. Gratuitous nudity translates this unmanageable passion Miles seems so intent on portraying into a vulgar act with all the subtlety of a road-side...
...white reaction and bureaucratic obstruction have dampened the reform movement, she added. "There will be no repeal of the discriminatory legislation. Race classification and the Group Areas Act will remain," Suzman said, adding, "Africans have political rights only in their homelands. They are excluded from South African political power...
...population grows amidst economic prosperity. Suzman predicted an increase in urban violence unless the ruling National Party allows Blacks to leave the rural settlements. "The government will let the economy continue by increasing oppression and controls," Suzman said...
Responding to a question about the effect of divestment on the apartheid regime, Suzman said, "It's ultimately a moral judgement. But it will have no effect even if everyone pulls out. If Ford sells, someone else will...