{"id":14111,"date":"2019-10-29T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T23:05:31","slug":"negatives-a-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/negatives-a-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Negatives \u2013 A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14108\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Negatives movie poster\" width=\"262\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-Poster.jpg 262w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-Poster-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0575389\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Medak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0263563\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Everett<\/a> (based on his novel), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0523366\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Lowry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0568493\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter McEnery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0162283\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diane Cilento<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0413559\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glenda Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Curse You, Red Baron!<\/h2>\n<p><em>Walt Mundkowsky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Faithful to Peter Everett\u2019s novel, <strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> (Continental) is curiously depressing. (Fifty-one years later, I would regard that as high praise!) The promising central idea clicks only in spots, i.e., when Glenda Jackson commands the moment. It remains a superficial piece of work and yet, and yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> tells the story of Theo (Peter McEnery) and Vivien (Glenda Jackson), an unmarried couple who live above the \u201cantiques and second hand furniture\u201d shop owned by Theo\u2019s dying father (Maurice Denham). The couple act out elaborate fantasies as Dr. Crippen, a wife-murderer, and Ethel Le Neve (his mistress) or Belle Elmore (his wife). Vivian is the dominant one, deciding on the game to be played and constantly ridiculing Theo. (\u201cYou look ludicrous when you make love, you know that? Such kissing and fondling, such heavy sentiments!\u201d) Their relationship is based on role-playing. (\u201cIf we didn\u2019t play a little, we\u2019d have nothing to say to each other,\u201d Vivien offers. \u201cWe go on and on. You bore me and I bore you, don\u2019t I?\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14109\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-1.jpg\" alt=\"scene from Negatives\" width=\"850\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-1-600x222.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-1-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-1-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Into this arena comes Reingard, a German photographer (Diane Cilento). \u201cYou and the woman have certain \u2026 possibilities,\u201d she tells Theo. \u201cShe reminds me of a friend I had in Rome once.\u201d Reingard has been watching their games. (\u201cIt was like something you\u2019d see in an old silent movie,\u201d she says.) She tries to interest Theo in a new role. (\u201cYou are the absolute image of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen.\u201d) \u201cAnybody can look like a murderer,\u201d she taunts him. Reingard eventually moves in with Theo and Vivien. (\u201cI\u2019m sure that we will all get on very well together. <strong><em>Ja<\/em><\/strong>?\u201d) She understands their craving for games much better than they do \u2014 \u201cAnybody can be anything on the right kind of day.\u201d Theo and Vivien accept her so completely that she is allowed to photograph them as they play out their roles. Reingard cuts Theo\u2019s hair to make him resemble von Richthofen. \u201cWhat the hell have you done to your hair?\u201d Vivien asks him. \u201cI cut it last night,\u201d Reingard says. \u201cDon\u2019t you think it looks splendid?\u201d \u201cNo, I think it looks bloody ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vivien senses that she is losing Theo, but is powerless to stop him. After his father dies Theo burns the clothes he wore as Crippen. He then buys an old Tiger Moth plane and transforms it into a facsimile of von Richthofen\u2019s celebrated aircraft. (\u201cYou are mad!\u201d Vivien screams at him.) She orders Reingard out (\u201cBloody German cow!\u201d) and attacks the plane in a fit of anger. Theo knocks her unconscious and she is taken to hospital \u2014 a fatal blow for the movie. Now alone, Theo climbs into the cockpit of his plane and imagines von Richthofen\u2019s final dogfight. He appears to suffer a brain hemorrhage, and the film closes with Theo in the same position as the dead von Richthofen, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>As novelist Everett wrote the screenplay, most problems are common to both. The book is almost entirely in the present tense. Very self-conscious, but contributing to the novel\u2019s remarkable photographic quality, recalling Robbe-Grillet\u2019s dictum, \u201cAn image is always in the present.\u201d Everett isn\u2019t operating on that level<strong><em> yet<\/em><\/strong>; I miss what by design isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14110 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-2.jpg\" alt=\"scene from Negatives\" width=\"850\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-2-600x246.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-2-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-2-768x314.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14107\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-3.jpg\" alt=\"scene from Negatives\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Negatives-3-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>The dialogue (by Everett and Roger Lowry) has a bad case of the Harold Pinters. In 1961 Kenneth Tynan wrote, \u201cMr. Pinter has a whole school of dramatists speaking in his very accents; his is the new small talk, and very small, on lips stiffer than his, it can sound.\u201d <strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> is a prime example of what Tynan meant. The speech sounds like something Pinter might have written (\u201cWe both knew it would come to that sooner or later. Did they tell you when they\u2019re going to do it? \u2014 Next Friday. \u2014 One week \u2026 one week.\u201d), but it rarely carries any great dramatic charge. Pinter\u2019s dialogue is highly patterned; in <strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> it\u2019s stilted and tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the dialogue, the acting is quite good. Glenda Jackson shines as Vivien; what interest the movie has can be traced to her performance. Her Charlotte Corday in the Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s <strong><em>Marat\/Sade<\/em><\/strong> was shattering. But sensational work so early in a career can derail it; I feared Ms. Jackson would spend the rest of her life doing catatonics and spastics. Happily, <strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> destroys that anxiety. She has placed her immense vocal authority and blazing sexuality to a different end. Vivien emerges as a scary real person, destructive and lonely. Her attempt to persuade Theo to return to her and the games they knew is moving. \u201cListen \u2014 maybe we could buy another bottle and get drunk \u2026 just you and I \u2026 alone \u2026 together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter McEnery is never downright bad as Theo, but he cannot fit the various sides of his performance together \u2014 fairly convincing in the scenes with his father, as Crippen, and as von Richthofen, but those aspects of the character remain separate. The touch of evil necessary to make Reingard gripping seems beyond Diane Cilento. Maurice Denham is superb as Theo\u2019s ailing father.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much can be said about Peter Medak\u2019s direction; he has brought Everett\u2019s world to life with some consistency. The material does not appear to have extended him. Maybe his pretensions are like Everett\u2019s \u2014 a tendency towards artiness and excessive technical ornamentation.<\/p>\n<p>Subtlety would be out of place in Ken Hodges\u2019 Eastmancolor camerawork here, but he does achieve some surprising color contrasts and juxtapositions. If Barry Vince\u2019s staccato editing were less determined to kick us in the teeth with each cut, this film would move more steadily. Blame the general exhibitionism of the whole project. The music is a contract job unworthy of Basil Kirchin, but the pervasive rot it generates is most effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Negatives<\/em><\/strong> can be viewed via No-Frills Theater on YouTube. 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