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...draftsman, Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins), has been commissioned by wily Mrs. Herbert (Janet Suzman) and her daughter Mrs. Talmann (Anne Louise Lambert) to execute a dozen architectural drawings of their estate. When not sharing their carnal favors, he is producing sketches that are precise, refined and troubling-for in them are tantalizing visual hints of a murder, perhaps of the master of the house. Will the draftsman's malefic ingenuity prevail over his hostesses' aristocratic arrogance...
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...
...Suzman, on the other hand, is given a relatively easier task in the role of Freida. Though adding an unnecessarily, harsh teutonic accent, she brings dimension to Freida that only heightens the absence of a strong Lawrence opposite her. She explains her passion and makes clear her strange love for this strange man, in moving scenes. Incensed at Mabel for questioning whether she is indeed the right woman for Lawrence, Freida launches into a tirade. Her incoherent anger, her rage at abandoning her children 12 years before, the passion so clearly emerging from character development, make us sympathize with this...
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...