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► TheMoviesby Gene SiskelC FOR ME, the quality of * punilc depend* more upon what one Is left with nflor It is solved than It don on the intricacy nr its creation. For example. JlfiiBW punka tiold Ulik' Inlc-reit because I do nol want to spend two hour* assembling a static photograph of three kittens playing w ith a hall of yarn.More tn the point. I did nol enjoy spending nearly two hour* trying to figure out what was going on in Jan Radar1* mind when he mndo ••Adrift. now playing at the Carnegie Theater Radar'* ptittlor shift* between future. present, past ami funu-*y with an Intricacy that I* admirable, hut with a result that I* not.A fiihcrmnn in Crochaslo-v.-tkin llhe film has English »uiiU»le*l rescues a beautiful linked gill from u river Prior to the rescue the fisherman hail been happily married. Bi« the girl aroines him sexually, and he begins neglecting hi* sick wife.TRIBUNE MINIREVIEWFlotsam★ ★•ADRIFTCivtirif It RMWl it?**!** N Im On-.miw, «*»# tot KUi;iMistfimU tt viati*ir mkif ZUmtk LM». t Iv SV0?« r®.twin#, IB MfO CfHltMlI Nlatlf •» Iff Cn»Ki Ttttlrt. flifti R THf CAIT YfMti Hit! MflfdKJ«m Mitavt Dfvrkam(# *ht c?#nIU MW* J'twf Krtw»-* lt;lt;•» I «■ ■ » * • '• •• ■I The only clear point in I he film Is why the fisherman begins neglecting his wlfo: The naked gtrl has a body that won’t quit and his wife has a body lhat won't start.]The girl avoids lilm for the most part, but when they do have a confrontation Radar leave* us to ponder a number of uninteresting questions. Did the fisherman force the girl to attemptIt ink Murkavtc unit Panin Pritchett In “Aiirtllsuicide? Did the fisherman cause hi* wife to die from neglect? Did Ike fisherman really try to »nvc the girlwhile iho was committing auicldc? And. that old bugaboo of far too many movie*, ia the girl real, or doe* *boexist only In the fisherman'* mind?t was nol Interested In pur-•ulng these questions when Ileft the theater. 1 do nol understand I heir import nncc.If the putxlo Were presented with more flair it might have been engaging But Kit dar, who cow ha* followed his poignant “The Shop on Main Street with two disappointments T The Angel Levine” was the other i, soak* his film in pregnant pause* that ultimately abort.Tile fisherman should have thrown her backn 1/10
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