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I saw this film when it first came out, and I've seen it about 20 times since, and it never wears thin. Other reviewers have covered the details, and I'll not repeat them. Guiness has made a character quite different from Cary's original, and in many ways, more interesting. For me, this is one of the great films, something not often said of a small comedy. It illuminates as much of the human spirit as "Seven Samurai" or "Citizen Kane". It's as near perfect as one could wish for - Guiness is completely mature and at the height of his acting and writing powers, and the supporting cast is perfect. I don't give such praise casually - this IS a great film, and worth your time and money.
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First off, this isn't a review--it's a reminiscence. I saw this film in the '60s in Berkeley, and I loved it then partly because it spoke to me of what I believed were the issues of the day--freedom (artistic and otherwise) and the power of the individual. I am now buying the video so that I can at long last have a joyous reunion with the unforgettable characters--the artist's dishevelled, indignant and loyal girlfriend; his equally dishevelled, adoring and unquestioning young admirer, and the artist himself, the outrageous Gully Jimson (Guinness). I still see his raffish little boat on the Thames, chugging along to the regal strains of Prokofiev, just as the often obnoxious and stubborn Jimson is dignified by the strength of his commitment to art and self. (This film was based on the novel by Joyce Cary)
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This is a well-made video; good sound, good clarity, good color. The comedy, should be required viewing for every aspiring fine arts painter. It portrays "the artist" as he is measured through the supporting cast; his affluent benefactor, his ex-wife, the adoring teen-aged-would-be artist, an antagonist sculptor, a market-minded Tate Gallery, and more, all making up a host of foils for Guiness the drunk, poetry quoting, oil painter of rawhide nudes. The dialogue gets on a fast track--I don't want to give away the plot, but "What does this review say to you?"
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