Word: thorsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When word got out that the Danish government was helping to fund Jens Jørgen Thorsen's blasphemous new film The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ, the Young Christians mobilized a protest march of 5,000 people through the streets of Copenhagen. In Amsterdam, a summertime citadel for hippies, many of Holland's 10,000 Jesus People joined a throng of young evangelists from overseas in distributing roses and Gospels as they marched to a park service. Some 8,000 youths, most of them from eastern Pennsylvania, descended on a potato field near Morgantown for an exuberant...
...self-defeating. Typically, Joey apostrophizes an ideal "woman in whom prudery and lasciviousness battle for supremacy." Thanks to a prudish legal system that forbids the guillotining of people who speak that way, the pair are allowed to continue yapping and fornicating until even Director Jens Jørgen Thorsen wearies of the charade...
...Thorsen might have trouble handling a Baby Brownie (the film is full of unfocused "stills"); the motion picture is manifestly beyond him. In his paws Miller's flow is halted, his sexual humor and energy rendered impotent. It is difficult to imagine why the U.S. Customs Bureau seized Quiet Days in Clichy (a federal judge later declared it prurience-free). As a matter of fact, the author might have a case suing for damages. What was true of the film Tropic of Cancer (TIME, March 2) is truer still of Quiet Days: Miller should be obscene but not hurt...