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A Safe Place (1971)
Director: Henry Jaglom
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Jaglom's first feature is a non-narrative fairy story of the emotional vulnerabilities of a young New York girl. Her yearning for past innocence reflects in her relations with a magician of uncertain powers, and in her interweaving fantasy around the two men who serve but can't fulfil her needs. Although a psychological reading is there for the taking, the film also offers a lament on the cinema's loss of magic. The nostalgic songs, the conspicuous presence of Orson Welles as the magician, show how much its roots lie in the past, while the film's experimental structure reveals the impossibility of trying to recapture that past. Despite the non-linear development, Jaglom's composition is sufficiently coherent, and Tuesday Weld's performance adds a real focus point. The result is sometimes indulgent, often fragile, and occasionally enchanting. With Welles as presiding spirit, it's also funnier than you might expect.Author: CPe
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- Terry Chambers said...
- Posted on Mar 18 2009 22:07 I was an assistant editor on "A Safe Place" I had to quit because of Jaglom's verbal cruelty to one Columbia Studio's top veteran projectionist and his constant arguing pure communism with his editor, Howard Alk, Both being Marxists, Alk brought up in the New York streets, while Jaglom, a was scion of Wall Street Finance. Alk was eventually fired and the new assistant, an amiable but unwitting young Dutchman did Jaglom's eccentric bidding. Over the years the inexperienced, arrogant, headstrong and ostensibly rich, Jaglom improved as a director with a cult following. He was always fair with me. I think this was because I had a stand-up reputation with the executive producer, Bert Schneider.
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Cast & crew
Director: Henry Jaglom
Producer: Bert Schneider
Cast: Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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