Some bold directorial choices, but ultimately it feels limited in scope by self-imposed constrictions that would be more appropriate in a stage play. Great performances from Garner and Macfadyen.
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The Swimmer 1968
A very strange film that transcends its oddity while fully embracing it. Burt Lancaster, usually so measured and in control, plays a man who’s totally lost it – he seems to think he’s half horse, half merman. This film, adapted by feminist author Eleanor Perry from a story by John Cheever, is an insightful and unflinching, even violent takedown of white, cis-heterosexual male privilege almost fifty years before that became fashionable. The best scene of the film is the third…
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