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Justine (1969)

Director: George Cukor

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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.

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  • Steven L. Chenault said...
    Posted on Jun 15 2008 22:53 The film poster/box shown is for a different Justine film of the same title than the one described.
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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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