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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Agnes of God (Spoiler!)
Message-ID: <920@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:47:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: celtics.920
Posted: Wed Oct 16 18:47:34 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 04:31:45 EDT
References: <1091@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
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In article <1091@cornell.UUCP> nax@cornell.UUCP writes:
>From: nax (Nax-Paul)
>
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>The director of photography was Sven Nykvist (sp?), who is justifiably
>famous for his work with you-know-whom.  The photography in AoG was
>very good, but on the whole I found the movie disappointing: 
>	- it was very Hollywood
...well, yeah, but it's a Hollywood film... at least I never thought of
"The Sound of Music"...
>	- Jane Fonda came off as stident and unbelievable
...unfortunately, she's the best Martha I've ever seen, and that includes
two on Broadway, Diahann Carroll and Elizabeth Ashley.  Why do they keep
casting outstandingly beautiful women as a character self-described as
an "ugly duckling"?  Ten years from now, at least Meryl Streep, Glenn
Close, or someone with a face with as much character will be available...
>	- the shrink-as-detective idea was never raised above
>	  the readymade cliches (Those meetings with the judge- ugh!)
...because it really was not an investigation into the truth of the crime
itself, but into the NATURE of truth.
>	- the climax was predictable (I killed the baby!), and having Meg
>	  Tilly stigmata-ize then was this movie's equivalent to the
>	  gratuitous car chase
...because this is one of those stories which doesn't really HAVE a climax
and a denouement... the real high point is the last moment.  
>	- the ending was weak
...well, that's what makes horce racing.  The author deleted a line from
the play, by the way, which made the ending less ambiguous; Martha quits
smoking in the play.  I'm glad he added the ambiguity.
>
>One * out of four. Very Missable.

I'll give it the other three.  And a half.
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