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Justine (1969)
Director: George Cukor
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A foredoomed attempt to compress Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet for Hollywood consumption, begun by Joseph Strick on location and continued by Cukor in studio sets, with the former's Tunisian exteriors cut in (irrespective of disruptive colour-matching) or back-projected from time to time to make the whole thing look doubly phony. Exuding the disastrous smell of compromise in every shot, it emerges as a farrago of sex (romantic, incestuous, homosexual, nymphomaniac) and high-flown political intrigues concerning Coptic Christians and gun-running in Palestine. Only Bogarde, as the tormented Pursewarden, manages to rise above the inanities and deliver his lines as though they meant something.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: George Cukor
Producer: Pandro S Berman
Cast: Anouk Aimée, Michael York, Dirk Bogarde, Anna Karina, John Vernon, Philippe Noiret, George Baker, Robert Forster, Jack Albertson, Marcel Dalio, Michael Dunn, Barry Morse full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 116 mins
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