Post by Capo on Jul 23, 2007 1:18:23 GMT
The Magus
Guy Green 1968 UK
An Englishman escapes from a doomed love affair and becomes a teacher on a Greek island, where he meets the local illusionist.
It moves a lot faster the novel, and is a lot shorter, a lot more crammed, so that the mysterious build-up to Conchis is all but lost, and the twists thereafter aren't given enough time to sink in convincingly before they're pulled from beneath the feet. Caine is a bit wooden, Quinn nowhere near as authoritative as he needed to be, and Bergen not enigmatic enough to be of much power. But it looks beautiful, and the ending is incredible, a fully surreal, cinematic slant on the literary original - and any fan of the novel must think it never less than extremely watchable.
Guy Green 1968 UK
An Englishman escapes from a doomed love affair and becomes a teacher on a Greek island, where he meets the local illusionist.
It moves a lot faster the novel, and is a lot shorter, a lot more crammed, so that the mysterious build-up to Conchis is all but lost, and the twists thereafter aren't given enough time to sink in convincingly before they're pulled from beneath the feet. Caine is a bit wooden, Quinn nowhere near as authoritative as he needed to be, and Bergen not enigmatic enough to be of much power. But it looks beautiful, and the ending is incredible, a fully surreal, cinematic slant on the literary original - and any fan of the novel must think it never less than extremely watchable.