Steve's Film Festival Reviews 1993
Steve’s Film Festival Reviews 1993 [These reviews have been reformatted for Word. Note that there was a hiatus of reviews from 1988 to 1992, and this edition marks a return to publication.] September 23, 1993 (Rev.) (again) Yes, it's that time of year again, and I am actually going to publish my reviews this year, something I had fallen out of the habit of doing. Having promised this epic to so many people, now I have to deliver. The films are reviewed in the order in which I saw them, and so there is no pride of place to a review coming first or last. I have done this to give non-Festival goers something of the feeling of the ups and downs of attending the Festival -- the days you wish you had stayed in bed as well as those where the films just get better and better. My apologies to those of you who have heard pieces of some of the reviews before. It is an inevitable fact that when people ask you about what you have seen, you develop a canned response after a while, and some of those are here. Have patience and read on. Friday, September 10th ______________________ (1) "A Foreign Field", GB, Charles Sturridge, 1993. ___________________________________________________ This film looks interesting in the program -- Alec Guinness, Leo Kern, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall; distributed by The Sales Company, a usually reliable source of English films. Premise: two old soldiers (English and American) are off to France to look up an old flame from WWII who was a ministering angel of mercy to them in hospital (and probably a bit more as well), and who are both convinced that she loved only them.
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